To The End of Berry Inlet
October 29th (Tuesday)
It was a beautiful clear morning. As the sun rose, it lit up the few clouds in colour and made the morning mist hanging over the water glisten.
It was a beautiful clear morning. As the sun rose, it lit up the few clouds in colour and made the morning mist hanging over the water glisten.
When we were out in the tender we could see the line of approaching cloud, and as the morning progressed the clouds moved in. By the afternoon it was cloudy.
In the morning we had headed out in Kiki to check on our traps. We pulled up our crab trap, and found some small crabs. We had five male Dungeness and four female Rock crabs, all very small. So if there are crabs here, although seemingly in a very select area, why were they all so small?
We moved the trap once again and put it out in yet another area; now almost more out of curiosity to see if we would get anything rather than out of the hope that we would catch something. We also set out our second prawn trap, hopeful that we would catch more prawns with two traps out.
While we used the generator to make water, Jason went around in the tender and scrubbed the growth off of our waterline – the level at which the water is constantly sitting on the hull, and I gave our deck a scrub, so our girl was shining again.
In the evening we went out to check on the location of our traps. We had seen signs of stronger currents in the area, and so we had been trying to check our traps in the morning and the evening, just in case the current had dragged them. We did not pull any of them up, and they were all where they should have been.
In the morning we had headed out in Kiki to check on our traps. We pulled up our crab trap, and found some small crabs. We had five male Dungeness and four female Rock crabs, all very small. So if there are crabs here, although seemingly in a very select area, why were they all so small?
We moved the trap once again and put it out in yet another area; now almost more out of curiosity to see if we would get anything rather than out of the hope that we would catch something. We also set out our second prawn trap, hopeful that we would catch more prawns with two traps out.
While we used the generator to make water, Jason went around in the tender and scrubbed the growth off of our waterline – the level at which the water is constantly sitting on the hull, and I gave our deck a scrub, so our girl was shining again.
In the evening we went out to check on the location of our traps. We had seen signs of stronger currents in the area, and so we had been trying to check our traps in the morning and the evening, just in case the current had dragged them. We did not pull any of them up, and they were all where they should have been.
Out on the edge of Seaforth Channel we had a great view of the sky and the distant mountains. We could see the sun on some very distant snow-covered peaks, and the clouds above us were broken with evening coloured light getting through from the setting sun. It was a beautiful evening.
We went up to the end of Berry Inlet and found it absolutely full of small jellyfish. There were so many of them that I thought we were suddenly in very shallow water as we were planing along in the tender. It looked like I was seeing the bottom with clamshells, and I shouted for Jason to stop, thinking that we were about to run aground. When we had stopped, it became clear that it was just thousands of jellyfish everywhere from 1/2" to 4". I had thought that there were a lot in our anchorage, but there were way more in this area. I wonder why?
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