June
20th We do not get away as soon as we
hoped. One of the dock people wanted to take pictures of the interior of OA.
When we were almost all the way around the corner in Johnstone straight we
discovered he had left his camera case on board, so Back to Port Harvey. The
person was mightily pleased to get the case back but just a little embarrassed.
NO PROBLEMO I would leave my teeth about and lose them if they were not bolted
in.
A LESSON LEARNED?
A LESSON LEARNED?
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| Alert Bay |
Course is now set to take us past Alert Bay.
About 18 years ago we tied at the government dock in the “Willobee G” Alert
Bay. It has a substantial native population with lots of mischievous young’uns
with too much time on their hands. We had a large brass porthole in the head
area in the boat. Under it and next to
the sink we hung our tooth brushes. I was up early in the morning and about to
plunk the tooth brush into my mouth and realized that one of the little brats
had reached through the port and scrubbed the brushes onto the steel dolphin as
a joke. I am sure they waited around the
corner to see our reaction but got bored and left. It did teach us a lesson to
close the port when in harbour as they could have put a lot worse things on the
end of the brushes. They were either too kind or not to creative. There was one
other time a young’un dropped a hand full of cherry pits through the same
window into our electric head. Those of us who know, know that the whole toilet
has to come apart. THATS A SHITTY JOB WHEN YOUR FACE IS PRESSED AGAINST THE
BOWL working on a STUCK NUT to release it from the bathroom floor. You just
want to burn all the clothing you have worn during the removal and spend 15
minutes in a scalding hot shower.
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| Putney Point |
Past Putney almost abeam of Port MacNeill the
wind and waves begin to pick up and we plot a course as an escape route to that
port. We tough it out and now in the lea of the Storm Islands that we plan to
anchor.
It
is a narrow gut with limited swing room. When anchored here before we have slipped
off the bottom and harvested a lot of eel grass. When sliding back we
discovered an almost sunk buoy with chain. We took a mighty tug on it and held.
THIS YEAR we were having trouble finding it and it was a concern. We could wind
are propellers around it. VERY BAD THING TO DO. We anchored away from the area
that we thought it might be lurking. Sure enough at low water there it was just
under the surface in disguise of being a kelp patch. I knew for sure that one
of the boating buddies would clump it for certain as they would all be milling
about to make a raft in this very narrow anchorage. I took the “Raven” over and
tied a yellow plastic container on it with yellow line and put “DAVES NOT HERE”
in black felt pen all on it. We had internet in this anchorage and so would the
Davison’s and when we were in Codville Lagoon way north we had internet to. She
mentioned did we do “DAVES NOT HERE” on the bottle? The reply was YUP.
AMAZING
As mentioned above when anchored in the
STORM Islands we had internet. These islands are smack dab in the middle of some
of the wildest water on our coast. Port Hardy is about 20 miles away as the
seagull flies. Getting back to Port Hardy from here in a storm would be a
lesson that would not be soon forgotten. We enjoyed catching up by phone and
internet. Several days later OA is a
hundred miles or more away, around Cape Caution in Codville Lagoon near Shearwater
(about 20 miles by water). This like Storm Islands is a wild place and can at
any time have wolfs and grizzlies on the beach. We have internet and now in
direct communication with the Davison’s. AMAZING
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