We awoke the next morning to gray skies & gusty winds. We had two more rapids to go through so we had to leave fairly early. We were a little concerned about going through Whirlpool rapids (the last of the two) as we were going to arrive well after slack water. Luckily, we cruised right through, with two bald eagles sitting right next to each other, watching our transit. We had originally planned to stop at an anchorage right after the rapids however as we had the current with us we decided to power through Johnstone straits, and headed to a little anchorage known locally as Maltipi. This is the site of a native village that has long since been abandoned. Like many old native village sites, there was a shell midden beach (made up of crushed shells from generations of shellfish eating).
Sue: Shortly after arriving Pete set out the crab & prawn traps. We had a nice dinner, watched a sail boat anchor with a lot of kids on it (must have been a sailing class from Seattle) and settled in to watch a movie. Right before we went to sleep, Pete went up to check the traps as you could see both of them from the boat. Unfortunately, the prawn trap wasn't there. It was after 10 and getting quite dark. Pete gave it up to being lost to the strong current in the channel outside the anchorage and said we should look for it in the morning. The thought of no more prawns (gasp!) was not one I cared to entertain so I insisted we go out on a rescue operation and look for it now. We quickly got into the dinghy and in the fading light zipped around looking for the red buoy, which I happened to know from my recent astronomy class, was a color you couldn't see well in the dark. We zipped over and around and lucky for us Pete spotted the buoy in the darkening gloom. It even had a few prawns in it when we picked it up - happy ending.
As we head further North, the scenery is getting outrageously beautiful!
Exploring in the dinghy:
Breakfast...
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