Saturday August 26, 2017

We've been sleeping in a bit lately as Bella has gone back to her "up early" schedule. It was cool enough last night that the furnace came on on it's own this morning as Greg got up with her the first time. Kwatsi turns the internet on from 8am to 10am and so I got up and when running to the computer! But Max was a bit late this morning and it wasn't available until closer to 9am. But when it was, there were some support requests for me that I needed to answer, and a few emails that I wanted to send and reply to. So I had my head buried in the computer for the morning (Max never did turn it off really) and then I had a shower.

I was only vaguely able to see the excitement of the RIB with the fisheries officers arriving. They arrived just before Byron and Greg were off to pick up the traps, so they decided to stay on the dock. Apparently Max had reported a set of commercial crab traps that appeared to be "abandoned" at the head of Kwatsi Bay. The RIB left the dock and then the Coast Guard Cutter "M Charles MG" went and picked up the traps. I didn't even get to see the cutter as this all happened during my shower. The RIB reported back that the traps were empty and the rot cord had "tripped". But the ID tags on the traps were from 2015 so they were certainly no legal. Max said he saw the traps go in in February.

Today was a cooler grayer day here - a traditional Broughton's day. Eventually Byron and Greg did get the traps - no crab but we got 13 prawns. They also got a dogfish, a baby octopus, and a small school of 10 sablefish! Back to the boats and we had lunch on EG - soup and leftover pasta salad. Can't remember how the afternoon went, but it went quickly. It was "Happy Hour" with just appetizers at 5pm and I made "cream cheese stuffed peppers". Greg had gone out to check the crab traps again and came back with a Dungeness! So we also cooked that up and put in in the fridge for later. We also wanted to make Sue "Birthday Halibut Taco's" for dinner, so we got a start on that as well. Cookin' up a storm in the kitchen, but it's sure a tiny kitchen.

More boats had arrived today so we had a larger crowd. I ended up sitting next to Beau, normally quite the talker. But he had had the hiccups for almost 24 hours and was a little under the weather, including from lack of sleep. So I gave him the "Cranna Sure Fire Hiccup Removal Method" and he actually got rid of them! For about 15 minutes, until he had some of the stuffed peppers I made. As he put them in his mouth he said "these will probably give me the hiccups back" - and they did. Sigh. Turns out he went back to his boat later and tried it again and was able to get rid of them.

Back on Spellbound we made Halibut Taco's for dinner and had another Sue Bday celebration, including the last of the chocolate cake. It was a nice evening.