After chores we took two rock crabs from the trap and headed for Ahousat (ah Howz it going?) under partly sunny skies. We saw for the first time this year Coho salmon jumping, and that prompted us to do a little, unsuccessful, trolling along the way.
By the time we got into Ahousat (49° 16.928 N / 126° 04.309 W), the skies were threatening and by nightfall were raining on us.
Ahousat is a relic from a time when there was more industry on the coast. Besides the hostel, general store, that has just about anything you could imagine, there are sheds and yards full of stuff from that era as well as an old boat yard facility and restaurant.
Huey, the second generation owner of Ahousat General Store, and enterprises, told us that he had a buyer coming to take a look at the end of the month. The place has been for sale for a long time.It rained most of the next day while our clothes were washing and drying in machines that looked like they had been resurrected from one or more of the junk piles scattered about the various yards and sheds around the general store, café and boat yard.
Two more rock crabs were taken from the trap and we had a crab lunch.
George & JoAnne
