We awoke to sunshine, collected our traps to find two small rock crabs and just 8 prawns, before heading to Winter Harbor.
After getting into Forward Inlet and out of the ocean swell into smooth water, we hung out the trolling gear and started to fish for a salmon. We didn’t go much more than a few boat lengths before getting hooked up with a small Coho. Lost that one, and within a few more boat lengths we had another. This one found his way to the boat;
and with dinner secured, we headed for Winter Harbor to clean the fish and moor for the night.
On the way in we spotted a good-sized female bear with two cubs.
After topping off the fuel tanks we secured moorage at the Outpost Resort Docks (50° 30.562’ N / 128°01.663’ W) with at least six other sail boats doing their circumnavigation of the Island, the most we have seen this season. It must be summer.
On the way to the fish cleaning table, we met Anna and Lew on Eclipse, a 33 foot Sweden sloop, trucked out from their home at Darien Connecticut. They had a hors-d'oeuvre get-together with Jeff and Sally from their beautiful cruising boat “Grace”. We all had a good time visiting. Jeff and Sally were doing a circumnavigation of the Island as a shake down cruise in preparation to cruise south to Mexico and on to the South Pacific later this year
