We left Clam Cove as early as we could in the morning. Jim had to walk Jenny and then we put up the skiff, pulled up the anchor and we were on our way by 7:05 AM.
It is best to travel around Cape Caution early in the day as the winds often pick up in the afternoon. We had light winds 6-9 knots and a 1 metre swell that hit us on our front beam most of the trip. Lilly got sick. Poor thing. Even I felt kinda queasy by the end of the trip.
Cape Caution off in the distance
We saw a big group of sea otters as we got closer to shore. Quite the site. It was a very large group and they were quite a ways from the shore in fairly deep water floating together on their backs.
We travel up to a small anchorage called Millbrook Cove in Smith Sound. We were the only boat in there when we arrived around 11:30 AM. We dropped the anchor and had a little lunch as we didn't really eat much on trip up.
We dropped the skiff after lunch and Jim was able to find a little spot to take Jenny to shore. Not the best shoreline for the dog but there was one spot that had a place for him to land the skiff and a little patch of grass for Jenny.
Around 3 pm two other pleasure boats came in. One of the boats was the KK42 Aventura. Later in the evening a couple of small fishing boats came in an rafted together for the night.
There were a number of commercial crab traps along the west shore of the cove. The crab boat came to pull then later in the evening. He did not get much from them. Jim put down the crab pot in the early afternoon and pulled it around 5 pm. There was just one small Red rock crab. He tossed that over and put them back down to pull again the next morning. There was nothing in them the next morning! No crab for us!
We might not be able to catch crab but we are really good at catching cats!
Adventura at dusk in Millbrook Cove
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