Day 59 July 13th Port McNeil

Day 59  July 13^th   Port McNeil

Todays are to get some ‘household’ things done and then I (Liz) will be traveling with several others back home for a few days.   “Vacation from Vacation” LOL.    Nelson’s, Miner’s, Diane, and I will all be flying home via Seaplane today, and then coming back up here on Sunday.   We each have something that needs attention at home.  

Glen, Willard, Pam and Rick will stay up here bouncing around from place to place playing while the rest of us go home.   Who only knows what kind of trouble they will get into while we are gone.

Flight home was good.  Left Port McNeil at about 2:30pm and touched down in Renton just before 5:00pm.   We had a tail wind.   It was a sunny day so the views were great. 

 

Getting ready for takeoff

View from the back

Almost home coming into Seattle.

 

Shawn picked me up and took me back to his house.  Then I went on to my house.  Visited with the girls – Nicole, Kristen, and Drea are living there while Kristen recovers from her accident on Mt Rainier July 4^th.   She broke both legs requiring surgery, several broken ribs and misc. bumps and bruises.  The ramp that Chris and Nicole built to get Kristen and her wheelchair from our carport to the front porch works great.   I’ve wanted a bridge over that entry since we bought the house.  This might just be the prototype to set that desire into a reality.

 

  

 

Day 58 July 12th Wishart Island to Port McNeil

 

Day 58  July 12^th    Wishart Island to Port McNeil

 

We pulled anchor about 10:30 am after the fisher people came back from their fishing adventure.  They had no luck.  Just a couple rock cod were caught, but as noted earlier they don’t count.

 

Port McNeil is filled to the brim.  Apparently, this is the week that people are leaving their boats here and going home.  There are several boats here all closed-up.

 

Today was outside chores, fueling the tow behinds, and filling fuel cans, and washing things down, inside and out. 

Went out to dinner at the steak house before calling it a night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 57 July 11th -- Another day at Wishart Island part 1

Day 57   July 11^th  --  Another day at Wishart Island    part 1

A day of rest, relaxation, fishing and beach combing. 

Tom won again when he caught a couple good sized Salmon.  But of course, the story is always that the  big one got away. 

Tom and his fish  (9 and 14.5 lbs)

 

We went for a small boat adventure with beach combing.  Several more floats, pieces of rusty metal, and a couple pretty rocks found their way back to the big boats.

 

 

 

Day 57 - part 1 extra

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pam finds a treasurer …. Not sure what it ‘was’ but it was old rusty metal

Steve retrieving my new float

 

Day 57 July 11th -- Another day at Wishart Island part 2

Day 57   July 11^th  --  Another day at Wishart Island    part 2

Willow had a ‘flat tire’

This picture is for Pete Jung

Another one for you Pete.  

Hope your recovery is going well.

 

 

Day 57 July 11th -- Another day at Wishart Island part 3

Day 57   July 11^th  --  Another day at Wishart Island    part 3

 

Michelle with additions to Steve’s collection

 

 

 

Boy there are a lot of people on our beach today

 

 

On the way back I spotted a large Eagles nest with two adult Eagles standing guard on either side of it.  Their little ones must have been napping. 

 

 

 

 

Day 55-56 July 9 - 10th -- 2nd day at Ellis Bay then on to Wishart Island

Day 55-56    July 9 - 10^th  --  2^nd day at Ellis Bay then on to Wishart Island

We left at 8-8:30 to allow easy passage through Nakwakto, had a 4 knot push against us but all in all pretty easy.

This early departure also fit with the plan for some quality fishing for Ling and Salmon at Wishart.

We arrived and anchored successfully followed by an exodus of fishing craft. Tom was the winner with a 30 inch Ling, the rest were skunked because we don’t count rock fish.

A few went out a little later when the slack current was supposed to occur but found a 2.6 knot current made it almost impossible to get a hook close to the bottom.   No Halibut or Ling today.