Day 42 June 26 Spiller Inlet to Ellerslie Lagoon

Day 42   June 26     Spiller Inlet to Ellerslie Lagoon

 

Steve and Michelle – Breakfast in the sunshine

 

The weather forecast looks like we will continue to have good weather for the next week or so.   Perfect!

Good weather is an understatement, it is down-right hot.  But after all the rain we all made a pack to not complain about some heat.

We picked a bay behind Nash Island, great spot

Just a little way from where Glen caught his big Halibut in 2019 so after all the pots were out the fisher persons headed out.

Unfortunately, the only thing they came back with was Willards rock cod, hopefully better luck tomorrow.

 

 

Day 41 June 25 Yeo Bay to Spiller Inlet part 2

Day 41   June 25   Yeo Bay to Spiller Inlet   part 2

 

 

Glen coming in for a landing

 

 

 

There was a log dump location on the point as we came into the bay so there will likely be a hike today.

We anchored to the left of the large waterfall and just in front of the old ‘Rain Maker’ Cabin.

 

 

The cabin is now less than a fixer-upper, but someone did a good job when they built it.  Cedar shake siding, 4 bunks, Coleman lantern, propane tank, misc. pots pans and dishes.  Everything you could ask for except a roof.   The roof appears to have been plywood, maybe planned to have shake or something added later but apparently never happened.  The roof was caved in on the cabin.  Oh, and the kitchen sink was out in the ‘yard’. 

 

 

Where’s the roof?

 

 

 

Rainmaker Cabin

 

Waterfall

 

 

 

Day 41 June 25 Yeo Bay to Spiller Inlet part 1

Day 41   June 25   Yeo Bay to Spiller Inlet   part 1

Woke up to sun! 

 

Took some quick photos of the sky and water which were very reflective this morning.

It’s going to be a nice day

 

 

5:45 am

 

 

 

 

My basil plant is loving it and growing like mad

 

 

We headed out under blue skies and on calm water … perfect for our cruise to the end tip of Spiller Inlet. 

 

Nelsea, with three others further up the channel

 

 

 

 

Day 40 June 24 Rescue Bay to Yeo Cove

Day 40   June 24   Rescue Bay to Yeo Cove

It’s even a nicer, warmer sunny day.   Even wore a skort and t-top today, so it must be warm.  Glen of course wears shorts everyday. 

 

 

Breakfast on the deck

Part of the group went out fishing today.  You can read that as fishing not catching.  LOL.   But they did see 2-3 Orca and then a Humpback did a full breach not too far away.   No photos as a) the breach happened too fast and without warning, and b) apparently no one had their photo or camera with them. 

 

After they came back we went for a hike.  Good to get off the boat, stretch the legs and get some exercise.  We went ashore at what was once a log dump.  A spot where logs are dumped into the bay from trucks.  Then went up the hill on the old logging road which is being taken back over by nature with lots of small Alder trees growing over the road.  We found the old rock quarry and what appeared to be sections of portable metal and wood bridge; that could be drug into position to let trucks travel along the way.  The bridge sections looked to have been pushed alongside the road near the rock quarry for ‘storage’.   We never got high enough on the hillside to get an open view of the area.  Someone thought that there had once been a mine up there somewhere but we did not find that either.

 

Log dump

 

Bridge

 

We did find a couple old rusty logging chains; used to tie logs in bundles for the log booms. 

 

Three ladies loaded and waiting for the adventure

 

 

 

Where we hiked up the hill.

 

Crabbing was good

Beautiful sunset tonight.

 

 

 

Day 39 June 23 Culpepper to Rescue Cove

Day 39   June 23   Culpepper to Rescue Cove

It was a beautiful, warm sunny day.

The cruise over to Rescue Cove was about 26 miles so it did not take too long.  Some of the group saw a Humpback whale (not us however).  

We put out the crab pots

Then we discovered we were closer to civilization when during the afternoon another 7 boats filled up the bay.

 

 

 

Day 38 June 22 Culpepper to Rescue Bay, Jackson Passage

Day 38  June 22    Culpepper to Rescue Bay, Jackson Passage

Today would have been my father’s 97^th birthday, miss you dad.

 

On our way out of the lagoon Steve called back that there was a bear swimming across the channel.  He thought it was a momma and cub but actually only saw one bear (at a time) and while this one looks small the only one we saw when we got there was an adult on the beach. 

 

 

Bear that had just made the swim across the channel

 

Skipper meets a friend?

Day 37 June 21 - Culpepper Lagoon

Day 37     June 21  -  Culpepper Lagoon

The group decided to stay another day for more site seeing but Willard pulled out of our raft about 9am today to head back to Shearwater.   He will be picking Diane up in Bella Bella tomorrow afternoon.  It will be good to have her back with us. 

Give me  a break.  It rained all day.    

We went for a ride up the Lagoon looking to see if we could find a bear where the group saw one yesterday.   It was raining and the tide was low so we were not able to get up river as far as they went yesterday.   At the delta of the river the sand/muddy beach was covered with quite a few ‘holes’ dug by bear in search of clams and other yummy things to eat.    Tom reported that when he arrived there was a bear up in the grass above the beach but when it saw his boat it ran into the woods.  

Most of the afternoon was filled with watching a movie.   We watched  CODA  which was very good. 

After the movie I had a couple phone calls, then it was dinner time.    After dinner we made another run up the river to look for bear.  The tide was high so we were able to go way up river.   It was still raining and I believe that the bear was hunkered down somewhere warm watching a movie as it was clearly not out waiting for us to visit.

 

 

 

That is snow. But too many prickly bushes below so Michelle and I could not go for some snow play

 

Back to the big boats then the rest of the evening was spent reading.