More Eastsoun photos

More fair photos.

Eastsound Labor Day

Damons and Finnegans and Carrs had a great opportunity to stay at a cabin on Eastsound, Orcas Island, donated to a Rotary Auction by the Smiths. Thank you Smiths! Kids had a great time faccepainting and in stoory time at the Eastsound festival, and the Men had fun crabbing and napping. The weekend ended poorly when the Huskies lost to BYU and the rain rolled in on Sunday to let us know summer was completely over and we'd better get ready for winter. Thanks too for the Crab Fairy Moose McCallum who delivered some crustaceans to us daily.

Sooke

Spent the last weekend of August on a Mancation to Sooke, BC. Friday night in Victoria was uneventful, and we got into some sockeye and a 35# ling cod on Saturday. Great raftup scene with Anonymoose and Shamahawk, with huge ribeyes and leftover Desolation and Barkley prawns. Good times. More pics to follow when I find them.

Montague

Having made Montague a day earlier than planned, we met up with our old college buddies the Meyer-Martins who are fortunate enough to have smart ancestors who built a cabin on Active Pass. I'm certain someplace I have photos of the ferries transiting the pass, I spent every minute watching these enormous steel hulks avoid reefs, fishing boats, and each other for our 7 hour visit.

Delayed entry!

Thought I'd update some late summer activities. After leaving Greenway we are low on photos for some reason. We I do have a nice one of Amie in the dingy as we explored a side channel off Greenway Sound, and the next night we stayed in Burial Cove off of Maltpi. Then we ran Johnstone to Cortez Island to meet up with the illustrious DelValle twosome. They gave us a tour of the Seattle Yacht Club outstation at Cortez Is, what a great facility. We spent one more night at Tenedow Bay injuretubing and swimming in both salt and fresh, then ran to Lund for lunch and all the way to Montague Harbor that night. WOW!

Monday nite

Monday, Aug 16. Slept in! Cleaned the INSIDE of the boat today. Kids did some perch fishing and puzzle solving while Dad uploaded four days of pics including today's proof that Greenway Sound grows the biggest spot prawns in the universe. There are some enormous boats here! Mom finished laundrying and around 3:30 we rebaited the prawn pots and put down a few crab pots in a spot we squeezed the waiter for. As we were setting the second crab pot way up the inlet... here come the dolphins! They were "driving" the baitfish into our little bay to trap them to feed. Incredible! There were probably 1-200. Amie got fantastic video which we will share when the data rate is more reasonable, but for now enjoy a few close-ups she took. Maren jumped in with them for about ten seconds, deciding it was a bit cold...? Not sure. A wonderfully lazy day, then salmon and prawns for dinner. Weather is changing, we will make this our apex and begin heading home tomorrow, adding an extra day in Desolation on the way home, which will please the kidlets. I'm not certain I'll get another chance to update this again until September, but I certainly will make a link to an album this fall so you can see what I couldn't share. See you soon! -RC

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.