Day 31 – June 10
Happy Anniversary to us !!!
I know it’s hard to believe but it’s been 30 years.
Sunny morning, until about 10:30 am when the gray clouds started to come in and the air temp went down. Indian Folklore says that there used to be a village in this bay but that a Devil Fish came up and devoured the entire village. Tom pulled his crab traps this morning and discovered that something had taken not only all the bait but the bait box too. He said it was the Devil Fish.
11:20 am anchor up and headed out of this bay for some other cove down the way. Less than 2 hours later the boys found our spot for the night; Sarkar Cove. There are a couple of houses and one fishing lodge here. Also a tarp lean-to tent in the trees which appears to be someone’s ‘summer home’. Tom anchored today. Just after we tied up I spotted a deer in the meadow behind us. The first deer of the trip and I got a couple pictures. Glen spent the afternoon working on the water maker which decided that it needed some attention. After reading the manual a couple times and changing a filter, it appears to be working again.
We went for our daily dinghy ride up the river; again as far as we could go. A bit farther than yesterdays adventure but not too far. There were lots of little fish, from tiny to about 4 inches, in the water and 3-4 Eagle in the trees and then on the rocks of the river bed. Hopefully will have some good close up eagle photos.
We didn’t stay up river very long and started back out and across the bay to explore in the other direction. All of a sudden Glen turned our dinghy very sharply and headed back to the boats. I said “What’s up?” and Glen said the boats have moved. Sure enough they had drug anchor and were now in 15 feet of water and about 30 feet from shore. We jumped onboard and started our engines. I was at the helm maneuvering while Glen was pulling the now dislodged anchor. Tom and Chris had stopped in their dinghy to check the crab pot when Chris told him that Glen was moving the boats. They came back and Tom took over the anchor pulling detail. Someone said ‘bigger is better’ and we re-anchored with Magic’s anchor. They guys could not figure our why Tom’s anchor did not hold that time, it was not windy and he had 140 feet of chain out in 40 feet of water, which is 3 to 1 so it should have been fine. Whatever … we’ll stick with ‘bigger is better’ for tonight.
After dinner we all took a kayak ride up the river. We had to paddle very hard and fast in one narrow section of very shallow rapids. I got stuck so Glen came back and with my bow line in his teeth and both of us paddling hard I made it through. The river wanted to push us back down stream. Once up in the upper river or lower lake we continued into the main lake. Beautiful lake filled with small islands. The water was about 62 degrees by Glen’s guess. Paddled across the lake a bit and around a couple islands and then back down the river. The ‘rapids’ section was a lot easier going down stream. Tom had his camera along and got photos of the group both going up stream and then videos of us coming back down. Saw a deer resting in the tall grass along the shoreline as we came out into the bay. This time the boats were exactly where we’d left them. Bigger proved to be better.
Happy Anniversary to us !!!
I know it’s hard to believe but it’s been 30 years.
Sunny morning, until about 10:30 am when the gray clouds started to come in and the air temp went down. Indian Folklore says that there used to be a village in this bay but that a Devil Fish came up and devoured the entire village. Tom pulled his crab traps this morning and discovered that something had taken not only all the bait but the bait box too. He said it was the Devil Fish.
11:20 am anchor up and headed out of this bay for some other cove down the way. Less than 2 hours later the boys found our spot for the night; Sarkar Cove. There are a couple of houses and one fishing lodge here. Also a tarp lean-to tent in the trees which appears to be someone’s ‘summer home’. Tom anchored today. Just after we tied up I spotted a deer in the meadow behind us. The first deer of the trip and I got a couple pictures. Glen spent the afternoon working on the water maker which decided that it needed some attention. After reading the manual a couple times and changing a filter, it appears to be working again.
We went for our daily dinghy ride up the river; again as far as we could go. A bit farther than yesterdays adventure but not too far. There were lots of little fish, from tiny to about 4 inches, in the water and 3-4 Eagle in the trees and then on the rocks of the river bed. Hopefully will have some good close up eagle photos.
We didn’t stay up river very long and started back out and across the bay to explore in the other direction. All of a sudden Glen turned our dinghy very sharply and headed back to the boats. I said “What’s up?” and Glen said the boats have moved. Sure enough they had drug anchor and were now in 15 feet of water and about 30 feet from shore. We jumped onboard and started our engines. I was at the helm maneuvering while Glen was pulling the now dislodged anchor. Tom and Chris had stopped in their dinghy to check the crab pot when Chris told him that Glen was moving the boats. They came back and Tom took over the anchor pulling detail. Someone said ‘bigger is better’ and we re-anchored with Magic’s anchor. They guys could not figure our why Tom’s anchor did not hold that time, it was not windy and he had 140 feet of chain out in 40 feet of water, which is 3 to 1 so it should have been fine. Whatever … we’ll stick with ‘bigger is better’ for tonight.
After dinner we all took a kayak ride up the river. We had to paddle very hard and fast in one narrow section of very shallow rapids. I got stuck so Glen came back and with my bow line in his teeth and both of us paddling hard I made it through. The river wanted to push us back down stream. Once up in the upper river or lower lake we continued into the main lake. Beautiful lake filled with small islands. The water was about 62 degrees by Glen’s guess. Paddled across the lake a bit and around a couple islands and then back down the river. The ‘rapids’ section was a lot easier going down stream. Tom had his camera along and got photos of the group both going up stream and then videos of us coming back down. Saw a deer resting in the tall grass along the shoreline as we came out into the bay. This time the boats were exactly where we’d left them. Bigger proved to be better.
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