Another Day at Codville Lagoon

September 4th (Wednesday)
In the afternoon the sun came out and the warmth felt stronger and stronger. Eventually we decided that it was a good time to finish painting on the protective product onto our enclosure. Since the forecast for the next few days was for cloud, and then rain, we really wanted to get that done. 
We spent about an hour working carefully around the windows with a paintbrush, and painted on the liquid. 
When we were finished it was around 4 o'clock, and still beautiful and sunny, so we decided to head quickly to the lake for a swim. We thought that the sun would already be gone from the beach, but when we arrived we were very happy to find that, although most of the beach was in the shade, there were a couple of deeper Vs in the trees that allowed sun to still be shining on the beach. We hurried to get in the water while it was still sunny, and had a wonderful time bathing, scrubbing, and soaking. The water was cool, but incredibly refreshing and wonderful.
The water was somewhat higher than it was last time we were here with my parents, but there was still plenty of beach. We walked along enjoying the sand on our feet, and saw fresh bear tracks in the sand. 
Bear paw print.

We had seen bear prints here last time, and it was curious that the fresh ones were going in the same direction along the beach as last time. 
We checked out our Chanterelle mushroom patch that we used last time, and were pleased to find that there were some fresh ones for us to pick.
When we got back home we headed out in Kiki to check our crab trap, but first we went for a boat ride out through the entrance into Fisher Channel. It was a beautiful, amazingly calm evening for a ride. When we pulled up our trap we had 13 Dungeness crabs. They were all too small to keep, about 4-5", but at least we were back at being able to catch some crabs.
It was a lovely day!


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