Back to Pruth Bay

Summer is over. At least it feels like summer is over. 

We left Rock Inlet early in the morning - without even trying to get Jenny to shore. 

It was only 3 hours to Pruth Bay so we could take her for a nice walk on a nice beach and make up for Rock Inlet and the disaster that Namu has become. 

There was a Gillnet and Seine boat opening happening as we crossed Fitzhugh Sound heading towards Hakai Pass. We had to go around a couple of gillnets in the water.  Lots of Sports fishermen out as well.  We had to wind our way a bit through all the boats. 

When we arrived to Pruth Bay there were about 12 boats anchor, including 3 other Krogens - Ceilidh, Free Spirit V and Bolero. 

Pruth Bay is looking pretty empty!  Summer is over in the Central Coast. Most boats are heading south 

We stayed 3 nights. It was nice to be back to Pruth. Jenny loves the beach. Jim got to say hello to the beach seining crew before they went off for their break. 

We didn't get a chance to do the long beach walk that goes to the 6 beaches to the south. The weather was a mixed bag of clouds and sun and then rain - heavy at times.  But we did walk West Beach a few times and I collected some drift wood and shells for my shelf. 

We got invited by Bill and Eileen from Ceilidh to do a Krogen boat crawl to their boat and Free Spirit V and then our boat. It's always interesting to see what other Krogens look like inside. They are all the same - but different!  There is a saying among Krogen owners -- "When you've seen one Krogen you've seen One Krogen". 

Jim seems to have picked up a cold somewhere - probably Shearwater. So he has been a little congested and coughing and not sleeping well.  He went out fishing a couple of times but he didn't feel that well and didn't stay out too long. So all fish were safe. 

By the time we were ready to leave on Thursday morning Jim had passed his cold along to me!  

A big barge bring supplies to the Hakai Beach Insitute. 

Our plan was to go to Fury Cove - which we are always calling Furry Cove after Furry Creek!  We were planning to stage out of Fury Cove to make the trip south around Cape Caution when the conditions were good for the crossing. 

Both the other KK42s left on Wednesday after a morning of fishing.  We went for a walk along West Beach and when we came back we saw Free Spirit V back and anchored up.  Apparently their Garmin plotter was not working so they had returned to Pruth for the wifi and to see if they could get it working again.  They never could get it working so they were planning to follow behind us to Fury Cove the next morning.