July 21, 2008 – We did make it to the town of Kitimat (10,000 people), staying 3 days. We took another bus ride to the grocery store and a little shopping. I was able to take care of our bills and read some messages. It was rainy and cloudy the last day so we were not anxious to leave.
On Saturday we did leave for an anchorage called Kiskosh. Another boater told Jerry it was a great place for crabs. So we anchored and he threw the crab trap right off the back of the boat. He didn’t want to get the dinghy down since it was raining all day. We were all alone in the anchorage shrouded with fog and had a quiet evening. Sunday morning before I even got up, Jerry had pulled up the crab trap, it was just about full. These are the Dungeness Crabs and I think some of them must have weighed 5 lbs. We spent the better part of Sunday cooking and picking crab meat. They were huge! We now have plenty of crab meat in the freezer. In fact our freezer is just as full as when we left LaConner. Other than fresh produce and dairy we still have a lot of meats, prawns and now crab.
It is Monday and we left our beautiful anchorage and are now headed up the Greenville Channel. The Channel is 45 miles long but we will only travel part of the way to another anchorage. We should be in Prince Rupert in a few days and that will be from where I send this message.
July 22, 2008 Another very beautiful anchorage. There is a waterfall that has ‘burgettes’ coming down from the tops of the mountains. We have seen salmon jumping up to the falls – brown bear and black bear on the shore, and ducks with wide orange bills. We stayed 2 nights.
July 23, 2008 Could this anchorage be more magnificent than the others?!?!?!?!??!!? We had to cross a very narrow passage with some rapids but once we got in the inlet opened up and again we had a very peaceful evening.
July 24, 2008 – Prince Rupert – the last big city of British Columbia.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Has it been that long
July 11th - It has been so long since I have updated the blog it is hard to know where to begin. Since we left Kwatsi Bay we have anchored out in pleasant, quiet bays. There are few and far between marinas and some do not have power, some do not have water The Shearwater Marina we are in right now has some power, no water, and the internet is very sporatic. Sometimes we are just as well on the ‘hook’. We have a watermaker and the generator works fine. We still have meat in the freezer, food in the cupboard, booze in the cabinet. We can stay out for weeks!
Jerry has gotten his downrigger all rigged and we have been trolling for a few hours the last couple of days, but no fish yet.
July 15th - Last night we stayed in one of the most beautiful anchorages off the Princess Royal Channel which is on the East side of the Princess Royal Island. The anchorage was called the Bottle Neck Cove and the pictures show the narrow entrance. We were once again surprised to find an American Tug in the Cove, owned by a couple that we had met at the seminar. They live in Port Orchard, WA and said this is as far as they have ever been North and they were turning back today.
We tried to leave out early (before 8am) this morning but there was a heavy layer of fog over the area. We waited and finally left when the sun came out and started to burn it off. The weather is supposed to get ugly in the next 2 days…….there is a front sitting over the Alaskan Gulf so we are headed to Kitamaat at the top of this channel. There is supposed to be a modern marina and fairly large town where we can ‘hole up’ if we need to. I also need to get a handle on our finances. I have everything set up in my trusty ole Quicken. I just need to make sure the money came in and the bills get paid. What did we do before INTERNET?
We have taken many pictures of the beautiful islands and mountains but I am sure they do not do justice to the scenic environment we are in. The mountains are mostly rock with a shallow layer of soil and many different varieties of conifers growing all over them. Some of the mountains are sill snow capped, the water is hundreds of feet deep, sometimes over a thousand, and there are many, many waterfalls coming down the mountains.
Jerry has gotten his downrigger all rigged and we have been trolling for a few hours the last couple of days, but no fish yet.
July 15th - Last night we stayed in one of the most beautiful anchorages off the Princess Royal Channel which is on the East side of the Princess Royal Island. The anchorage was called the Bottle Neck Cove and the pictures show the narrow entrance. We were once again surprised to find an American Tug in the Cove, owned by a couple that we had met at the seminar. They live in Port Orchard, WA and said this is as far as they have ever been North and they were turning back today.
We tried to leave out early (before 8am) this morning but there was a heavy layer of fog over the area. We waited and finally left when the sun came out and started to burn it off. The weather is supposed to get ugly in the next 2 days…….there is a front sitting over the Alaskan Gulf so we are headed to Kitamaat at the top of this channel. There is supposed to be a modern marina and fairly large town where we can ‘hole up’ if we need to. I also need to get a handle on our finances. I have everything set up in my trusty ole Quicken. I just need to make sure the money came in and the bills get paid. What did we do before INTERNET?
We have taken many pictures of the beautiful islands and mountains but I am sure they do not do justice to the scenic environment we are in. The mountains are mostly rock with a shallow layer of soil and many different varieties of conifers growing all over them. Some of the mountains are sill snow capped, the water is hundreds of feet deep, sometimes over a thousand, and there are many, many waterfalls coming down the mountains.
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