Rain - Heavy at Times.

Hakai Pass was flat calm when we left Pruth Bay. Often in the past it's been very windy and wavy through there. And no sports fishing boats in the pass either. We are too early for the salmon season.

Our plan is to go to spend a couple of nights in Codville Lagoon and get some prawns have a birthday dinner for me!

As soon as we got into Codville Lagoon we discover there were a bunch of commercial prawn pots about - so Jim muttered a few choice words that meant - we might not be getting prawns!

We were the only boat in the anchorage and we were quite successful in setting the anchor right where we wanted it.

Jim got busy and we got the two prawn pots down from the boat deck and started setting them up to drop them in the main part of the Lagoon - in 200 feet of water or so. The boat is anchored in about 45 feet of water.

As he was preparing the two pots he'd had them both sitting on the swim step. As I was watching - one of the pots just ever so gently tipped off the swim step and started to fall into the water -- Jim - Jim!! I yelled. And he looked up and reached out to try to catch it as it slipped just out of reach - gently sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Well that sucked! In the end he did have another pot - an old one that was needing work but useable. So after quite a bit of fiddling he got the two down and then we hoped for prawns for my birthday dinner. We did have a Plan B though -- pasta.

So --- we had pasta.

Although we did get 6 small Humpback shrimp. Not a single Prawn.

Jim left the pots down for overnight and he pulled them again in the morning and we got a few more Humpback shrimp.




Our entire catch of Humpback shrimp from Codville.

Jim decide he would make us an "Amuse-bouche" with them.



There weren't many but they were tasty! Just what we needed.

We decided we didn't need to spend two nights in Codville Lagoon and we headed to Shearwater for some 3G and a dinner in the pub.

We arrived in Shearwater on May 31st. Today is June 4th. It has not stopped raining!








We spend two nights at anchor, the second night we had pizza in the pub.





Although in amongst all the rain there was a lovely rainbow.





The second night it was blowing 35 knots most of the night. What a racket that is! We were just hanging on the anchor. The Rocna Anchor has never failed us! Best anchor EVER!

We left on the morning of June 2nd -- blowing 25-30 knots as we are trying to put the skiff up and pull the anchor between wind gusts.

We motored up through Gunboat Passage and blowing 27 knots in Fisher Channel -- to Ocean Falls.

We spent two nights in Ocean Falls. We did a bunch of laundry, got some crab, got some water.

We met some boaters that had a great catch of prawns from Codville Lagoon, and they gave us prawns. I think they felt sorry for us - every time they talked to us they gave us a bag of prawns!

Today we motored back to Shearwater to spend the night and start the voyage north toward the top of Banks Island - where we will position ourselves to cross Hecate Straight.

And it has not stopped raining!! And it's cold. And wet.

Did I mention it has rained non stop since May 31st? And it's cold!!







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