Jul 4th – Happy Independence Day!!!
When we up anchored this morning, the windlass was straining really hard. The windlass is the machine at the front of the boat the pulls up the chain and anchor. Our main anchor is a 70 lb CQR and we have 300 feet of 3/8inch chain attached to it. We usually put out 80-100 feet of chain in these waters so that’s a lot of weight to pull up by hand! Anyway, as the windlass pulls up the chain, she rattles away and today she was whining a lot especially the last 25 feet when the anchor was leaving the bottom of the sea bed. Low and behold when the anchor finally came up we found we had caught a prize. Part of an old net had been pulled up with the anchor and it was still attached to the bottom. We hooked it off and headed off. There is a fish farm in the same cove and when we read the guide book later on, it mentioned that anchoring was not recommended because of all the debris left by it! Oops!
Look what we caught!
We headed out for the pass where Jim so successfully caught his fish the other day and dropped the line. I went below to make blueberry scones. It was a lovely sunny day with little wind. Jim had a couple of bites but none that stayed on the line so he was very disappointed. Jacintha had a turn fishing as well.
Fishing with daddy
We saw some whales chasing fish, I’m sure they had a better day than Jim! We had our blueberry scones with fresh whipped cream, while looking at them frolicking away. There was a whale watching boat nearby as well and it made me think how lucky we didn’t have to pay $$$ to see whales playing. This area of Canada has been amazing for the number of whales and eagles we’ve seen!
Freshly baked blueberry scones!
That evening we anchored at Turtle Bay. It was windier and crowded with lots of boats. Jim and Jacintha went to the little beach for a play in the sand and a stretch of their legs. Jacintha came back a bit wet. I broiled the salmon collars and cooked the rest of the salmon up. I had to teach my American husband how to eat salmon collars! They were very tasty! We had a nice meal of it.
