Sept 1 – Day 122 Claydon Bay for 2nd night
Beautiful sunny day. Summer is here!
We harvested crab and shrimp and prawn and reset the pots.
No Glen this is not a pictograph, it is bird doo
Our daily exploration included going through ‘Roaring Hole’, which was not roaring/running very fast, which was fine by me.
End of the line on this tour
One massive Cedar stump, and lots of moss on trees
Bathtub with a view
Yard Art?? Appears to be an old compressor
We explored every nook and cranny that Glen found and went slowly by Nimmo Bay to see what was happening there. Nimmo Bay is an exclusive resort which many of the rich and famous go to. Guests are flown in by Helicopter and stay in a variety of small cabins on the beach or other larger buildings set back into the woods a bit. We got a tour of the place some years ago (while guests were out for the day) and the place is amazing. We had seen two of their fishing boats go out early in the day, and those were not back yet. We chatted with some of the staff and watched as they loaded an elderly couple onto one of their ‘landing craft’ style boats to head out. They had them seated outside in the sun with what appeared to be heavy fleece lined blankets/lap wraps. One of the staff asked us if we had been here before and welcomed us back, he also said that we were the first USA boat they’d seen this summer. They also said that they were still doing fine regardless of the Covid situation and restrictions. They have a new lodge building which they use for meals and gatherings; it is beautiful. The old lodge building appears to be being used as a gathering facility. There was a table and chairs, and couches and coffee table, antic china hutch, and crystal chandelier outside under the cover by the front door. Looked like a cozy outdoor living room. Through the windows you could see tables set up for games – card, chess, etc… in what had been the dining room. One of the other buildings is now a gym facility with workout equipment looking out the windows. The new lodge is bigger and looks to be of a more modern style from the outside and had black trim rather than the normal red of the old lodge. The ‘party barge/deck’ has been moved over to in front of the new lodge and looks much the same but all the Adirondack chairs around the fire pit are also now black instead of red. The place looks great.
On our way out of the bay, we spotted the boat that took the couple and they were very close to shore down the bay. Thinking that they might have spotted a bear on the beach we went that way. No bear, and they were off loading their guests onto the beach. We turned and headed out. I glanced back and noticed that a blanket was being laid out on the beach for them, and also noticed a large bag. Humm, my guess is that they were having a private intimate ‘picnic’. We know that Nimmo is known for things like ‘chocolate, strawberries, and champagne served on a blanket on a glacier’, or whatever the guests want. This couple clearly wanted some time on a beach in this beautiful setting. The lodge boat left them and headed back to the lodge.
Old lodge repurposed
The new lodge
On the way back to our anchorage we looked for but never found the pictographs on the rock walls near Nimmo. We know they are there, just could not spot them this year.
Glen and I left Claydon Bay about 3:30pm and made the run out to James Point so that I could get internet and cell service to attend an NSP board meeting. Got there anchored up, in between some large rocks, small islands, with views all around. Glen read while I attended my ‘zoom’ meeting. After business was done we pulled anchor and went back to Claydon Bay getting there about 7:30 pm where the Sea Life and crew were waiting for us. They had spent the afternoon check crab and prawn pots – harvest was good, processing said harvest, and relaxing on the deck in the warm sunshine. By about 8pm the ‘dew had dropped in’ and the decks were damp and somewhat slippery.
We visited, played some cribbage and went outside to look at the stars. There are no lights around here, and there were no clouds in the sky. Jupiter was out clear as day, and with the high powered binocs we could see it’s moons again. There were millions of stars out and visible. The big dipper seemed huge and little dipper was easy to spot too. The Milky Way and many constellations were fun to spot and try to identify. There was a dampness and chill in the air, so we called it a night.
Great day in paradise.
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