Exploring West of Berry Inlet
We had another full day of exploring and saw many beautiful places. First thing in the morning though we pulled up our crab trap and were disappointed once again to find it empty, and the carcasses were untouched. It was so weird! Where were all the crab? Why did we catch two small ones the first day and then nothing? We were, however, persistent and took the trap to yet another area; this time out deeper and closer to open water, and reset it once again. In the evening we pulled it up again out of curiosity, and found it still empty. There was one large red Sea Urchin clinging to one of the carcasses through the net of the trap, but otherwise it was empty. We once again moved it to another area and reset it. It didn't hurt to try.
We pulled up our prawn trap to see if we had anything, and we were stoked to have some prawns. We threw back the largest three because they were carrying eggs, we also threw back three little ones, and we were left with 29. Yay! It’s was so nice to get some prawns again. We reset the trap, and were hoping for more.
An interesting fact about prawns is that they are all born males. They live for up to four years, and in their third year they change into females and mate with the younger males. They then carry these eggs for up to six months before the eggs hatch into larvae that can live in the water column for up to three months before settling to the ocean floor.
We spent the day exploring out to the west from our anchorage area. We went through Reid Passage and checked out two anchorage areas. One of them was through a narrow entrance that opened up into the centre of Cecelia Island, and it was beautifully surrounded by old and stunted trees.
We stopped at a perfect little beach for lunch. The rocks were round and smooth like river stones, tumbled and rolled against one another until they were all baseball sized and smooth.
We spent the day exploring out to the west from our anchorage area. We went through Reid Passage and checked out two anchorage areas. One of them was through a narrow entrance that opened up into the centre of Cecelia Island, and it was beautifully surrounded by old and stunted trees.
We stopped at a perfect little beach for lunch. The rocks were round and smooth like river stones, tumbled and rolled against one another until they were all baseball sized and smooth.
The beach faced perfectly so as to shelter us from the breeze and let us soak up all of the suns warmth.
We explored around the outside of Ivory Island where Ivory Island lighthouse is, and we tried some fishing out from Rat Rock.
We explored around the outside of Ivory Island where Ivory Island lighthouse is, and we tried some fishing out from Rat Rock.
We were able to drift in the swells on a good line across the front of the rock, and caught four nice-sized Lingcod and some nice Rockfish. We kept one of the Lingcod for our freezer.
We saw our first Loon in its winter plumage. We had heard them a couple of times, but this was the first we had seen, looking all sooty and grey. It is quite interesting how so many of the sea birds change their plumage from summer to winter.
Jason made us yet another delicious feast for dinner. We had taken some chicken out of the freezer in the morning, not knowing whether we would catch prawns, so we had a combo dinner of Jerked Chicken with a coconut and peanut, and prawn soba-noodle pasta. It was a great combination dinner with delicious flavours. We then enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate in our cockpit under a beautiful, clear, starry sky.
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