Awoke to fair skies. After visiting with a group of sailors, that came in yesterday from Deep Bay Yacht Club doing a circumnavigation of Vancouver Island, we collected our full propane bottle and topped off our water tanks, We then cast off for Zeballos, via Tahsis Narrows. What a beautiful passage it is through the narrows, very park like. (Sorry no Photo opportunities.)
After turning north up Zeballos Inlet we came across several sea otters floating on their backs and a bear foraging at the mouth of a creek all at the same time. Jo didn’t know just where to focus the camera.
The otters were too fast for our digital camera, but we did get two.
We set the prawn trap in about 350 feet before going into the small craft harbor at Zeballos (49dg 58.717' N / 126dg 50.653' W) and securing moorage. After getting squared away we went to town to look around and stretch our legs.
This is “supposedly” where the TV series Northern Exposure was filmed – Cicily Alaska look alike. That’s according to the guide book, but narry a soul in town could confirm that fact. Most of them were surprised at the inquiry. Granted the show was on a long time ago, and some of them weren’t living here then, but interestingly they weren’t a bit impressed they were living in an area of infamy. Very low key these folks, in this remote rustic, old gold mining village.
We found this cute park along the inlet named, none other than, Golden Gate Park. As you can see by the photo, it has a different “urban” setting than the one in San Francisco. (see picture)
The showers here were working, but they didn’t have hot water either, much the same as Ahousat. Cold showers were free. We proceeded to the well stocked, albeit small, grocery store and stocked up on fresh veggies and other essentials for the anchoring days ahead. We purchased cat food, as we were told that the smell on top of the bait container would start the prawn attraction to the trap. We were soon to learn that this just might have been the success of our next two retrievals.
More to come,
George and JoAnne
