Ok, so we made it across the straits without incident, a bit lumpy according to Chris. When she tells it the refrigerator bounced out of position and everything fell over. From my persepctive it was an uneventful crossing with a few small rollers to deal with. We made it in good time with a strong 3 knot push out of Admiralty inlet to assist us. That was why there was rollers at the beginning but there was not wind so it wasnt bad.
We anchored in Hunter bay and dropped crab pots. the Whatmores and Millens were anchored in the bay and said the crabbing was great and they showed us their catch. With high hopes we put two pots down and waited, and waited and waited. We ended up with lots of little females and no keepers.
We left Hunter bay and headed up to Garrison Bay thinking we might have my parents pick us up for the afternoon for a visit. they are not doing well, dads heart is acting up and they want to put him on a 30 day monitor to see if there is anything they can do for him. Mom was exhausted and headed off island the next day for a root canal so we did not meet up with them. Oh well!
We did finally get crab. I got a couple nice size ones and a couple just legal ones so we finally had crab for dinner.
We met Jim and Cheryl Matheson in Roche Harbor. They are on their last day out, headed home tomorrow after 4 months running to alaska and back. They had a great trip and they caught lots of fish, crab and shrimp. Jim showed me some of the video he took on the trip and they had a great time by all appearances. But they are ready to be home they said. After a nice visit we headed back to our boat which was anchored in the only sheltered spot in Garrison Bay. it was blowing pretty hard out of the south and I dropped anchor right behind the rock bluff at the entrance to the bay and while everyone else was in the breeze Chris and I were sitting warm and comfortable just out of it.
Roche is such a fun place to be to watch the crazy boaters do stupid things. We spotted a 40 foot sailboat aground on the wrong side of the island in Mosquito Pass. It appears he tried to go on the inside of the island rather than around it. Oops! That is the second boat I have seen run afoul of that bit of land. I do not think I have ever been to Roche without some boating mishap occuring to someone.
We left Monday morning and headed for Sydney to clear customs which was a non event. No issues, phoned in and were out of there in less than 20 minutes.
We wandered slowly north and decided to stay the night at Ganges so we could shop and resupply with food after crossing the boarder.
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