Thursday August 17, 2017 - Happy Birthday Mom!

We got underway around 9:30 to head for the slack at Stuart Narrows at 11:00. We allowed extra time so that we could hang out in Wells Passage and get the Telus signal. I needed to make a phone call and we thought that we would download email while there. But there was no Telus signal to be found! Weirdly we had AT&T and Rogers, so I was able to call Mom and wish her a Happy Birthday, but there was no Telus so no data. At least for us! Turns out EG had had data for awhile and so they went ahead and started through a bit early.



As we then started up Drury Inlet, we ended up having to go behind a boat that was apparently not paying attention, or didn't care. And it was slower than us.

We decided to go on the south side of the Muirheads instead of in the nook. That way, we would be closer to EG and have a greater possibility of Telus (or so we remember). It was a lovely flat calm day with no wind. As it turns out, again no Telus for us, but EG was able to pull it in intermittently. But when it did come in, it didn't really work well.

We all had some lunch on EG. The rest of the day was spent putting out prawn traps and crab traps. We all went for a dinghy ride around the Muirheads to make sure it all looked the same and to scout out crab trap locations. There was a commercial crab boat putting traps out where we thought we would put them, so we kept looking. There was a very young eagle standing on the edge of the eagles nest that's on the far eastern islet. It has been there ever since we have been coming here. No sign of any parents though. Byron and Sue went back for their "Boaters Net" call and we headed up to put out our crab traps where the commercial guy was cause we couldn't find any better place. As we were putting them down, we saw first one and then a second black bear on the beach. The first disappeared before we could get closer, but the second one stayed around and kept a wary eye on us. He too started to leave as we got "too close" so we headed back.




Back to SB to feed the dog and make some salsa for an appetizer. Great dinner on EG and a pretty early evening.