Tuesday August 15, 2017

It was high clouds this morning and a little chilly, but not too bad. We talked to EG and all decided that it was better to go touring around this morning while it was closer to high tide, than it was to go at low tide this afternoon. Since we had all had a lazy morning, it was closer to 10:30 by the time we headed out. We cruised over and took a closer look at the petroglyphs along the way, we can get much closer in the dinghies. Then to the head of Grappler Sound and took a look at the reversing rapids there. We had done a "crazy ivan" there in Spellbound on the way in as we waited for a supply barge to come through the narrow channel there, but it was fun to see the reversing rapid there up close. Lot's of rocks showing already.



Then we headed up into ????? Lagoon to take a look around. It was calm and peaceful but we didn't see too much wildlife. It did look like a perfect bear place though, we're sure there must have been one around there somewhere. Then back towards Turnbull and did the obligatory cruise by "Roaring Hole". It's another reversing rapid near the entrance to Turnbull. Went quite far in and then rode the ride back out again!

Back to the boats for lunch and Greg put together our 3rd prawn trap to take out. Byron and Greg dropped the "new" trap and went out fishing for a few hours. Nothing caught that way. But we did get some prawns! Byron's traps were filled with crabs and squat lobster parts and several other sundry sea creatures, but no prawns. Greg's first 2 traps had a small number of prawns in them, but the 3rd "Washington" trap that had only been down for a short while was loaded with them. Go figure. So they moved everything closer to where that trap was.

The afternoon got warm and sunny so I was happy. Was able to put on a short sleeved shirt and shorts! Bella and I spent a lot of time just hanging out in the sun and reading and soaking up the rays.

We feasted on prawns for dinner, and Sue made a salad accompaniment and we BBQ'd some zucchini and had a great warm evening.