Pruth Bay Calvert Island

Jim woke me up at 5:10 and we on our way by 5:30 AM ish. 

The forecast for the day was winds 10-15 in the morning and then picking up to 15-25 in the afternoon and a strong wind and Gale force warnings for the next few days after that. So we wanted to travel while the wind was at the lowest.  Our plan is to stay at Pruth Bay until the 7th or 8th - so quite a few days as we got here on July 2nd 

Coming north through the area of open ocean - before we got in the lee of Calvert Island - was quite rolly with big swells at the beam.  And Lilly slept through it!  Didn't get sick that time, although she looked at me a couple of times and did a bit of lip licking. But it was only about an hour or so before we were in the lee of Calvert island and the swells died down nicely. 

We arrived at Pruth Bay nice and early - 10:15 or so.  There were about 5 or 6 boats anchored up in there. Maximus was at anchor in there as well.  A couple we knew from Port McNeil. 

Just after we dropped anchor a big pod of dolphins showed up and were busy swimming around the bay like crazy - herding herring probably.  They came into the bay here off and on for most of the afternoon. Quite the sight.  A bit of an event to get Jenny to shore in the little skiff because of the dolphins. She was barking at them. And they came so close to the boat. We didn't want to be out in the middle of that. They were swimming really fast and jumping and splashing.  We got some ok video - as we are both pretty incompetent with the video setting on our cameras. Haha.  

We had a bit of an anchor issue. Set the anchor and as we went back we ended up a little too close to another boat. We eventually moved, and then moved again. But now we have stayed put since we set up. 

We went for our first walk on West beach and met up with Sue and her dog Barnacle - a Portuguese Water Dog.   

Jenny is excited to finally go for a proper walk on a proper beach. And then she does her - lie down in the water routine! 

When we came back from the walk the dolphins were circling the bay again and Jenny was barking and I was holding her in the skiff and the dolphins were swimming around us in the skiff they move pretty fast!  We had to stop the skiff for a bit and wait for them to move away a bit before we felt it was safe to go back to the boat. 

We had a bit of a Happy hour with Barry and Sue on Maximus on our first night here. 

A view from the dock of all the boats in 

the bay.