Sunday Aug 15

Sunday the 15th underway at 6am to try to scrounge a salmon. No luck. Even the guides were sleeping in. We picked a route through the islands toward Echo Bay and fished by a few promonotories but no luck. After fueling and ice cream at Echo Bay (cute spot, will stay there sometime) we headed to our favorite Greenway Sound Marina. En route we were intercepted by two pods of 200+ Pacific white sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)! One pod was hunting and had no time for us, but the other pod played in our wake, jumped and spun and swam under the boat! Quite the show. We put the shrimp pots down on our way into Greenway at a few coordinates our friend Dr. White told us about, checked in, washed the boat, then took the hike to the lake for a freshwater washdown. Today was extremely hot and the water felt great despite the orange tannin color. We ate dinner at the restaurant, nice to have a dinner out for the first time in awhile. The new owner of Greenway Sound Marina is Trip Rumberger, a member of the 1978 UW FB team that won the Rose Bowl, so this is a purple haven in the middle of the Hockey Nation. No plans to change the name to Purpleway Sound Marina I guess. Everyone is super friendly, and with UNLIMITED FRESH WATER we are doing laundry and being aggressive at keeping things clean. Check it out at www.greenwaysound.com. After dinner we took a pajama ride to the prawn pots. While numbers were average, the size of some of these prawns is borderline alarming! Little lobsters! Dad spent a quiet half hour processing at the dock after dark while girls snuggled in for bed.