Namu used to be a very busy fishing community. There was a cannery, stores, homes, bunk houses numerous docks and floats. Boats coming and going - mostly fishing boats but pleasure craft as well. There used to be a number of docks there but they have all fallen into a state of disrepair and into the ocean.
We anchored up in an Inlet a little further in called Rock Inlet - well named! A lovely little spot but a very Rock filled inlet with nowhere to take Jenny to shore.
We took a little dingy ride around after we dropped the anchor. We found one little spot that had a little stream and some old rotting dock material - accessible only at a very high tide. We took Jenny to shore for a bit there.
It was a very difficult place to get Jenny to shore.
We took the dingy around to Namu and found a spot we could tie the dingy and wander around the old cement wharfs and building in Namu. Such a sad state it is.
An old steel pressure canning cooker.
The inside of the Namu General store. Everything just left and now a mess.
So sad it has become such a disaster - and a terrible environmental disaster as well.
Still some beauty left.
There were a few Gillnet boats anchored up in Namu harbour. When we got back to Phoenix Hunter there were a couple of Gillnet boats at anchor there as well.
For Jenny's evening walk Jim had to go back to Namu as there was no possible shore access in Rock Inlet at a lower tide. He said there were some people wandering around Namu and shooting a gun into the water. Jenny was a little agitated and he had to ask them to stop for a bit to get her back to the skiff.
It was interesting to see but I don't think we will need to go back there again.
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