More Exploring of Discovery Bay
October 18th (Friday)
After more wind and pelting rain, including a downpour of ice pellets, last night, the clouds began to break up in the morning, even though the sky was still filled with large and dark cumulus clouds moving quickly across the sky. With them came gusty winds and heavy, though mostly short lived, rain showers. It was, however, a relatively calm and dry day compared to what we had been having over the past week.
After more wind and pelting rain, including a downpour of ice pellets, last night, the clouds began to break up in the morning, even though the sky was still filled with large and dark cumulus clouds moving quickly across the sky. With them came gusty winds and heavy, though mostly short lived, rain showers. It was, however, a relatively calm and dry day compared to what we had been having over the past week.
We wanted to go out and do some fishing, and since it was calm in our anchorage we headed out in Kiki. As we exited our bay a large cell was coming quickly up Troup Passage bringing with it heavy rain and white caps. Rather than speed along in the wind and rain, and over the increasing chop, we pulled into a sheltered bay and tucked in under the limbs of a large leaning cedar tree. Here we stayed warm and dry, completely protected as the cloud passed us by.
Once the worst of the rain had passed, the sun came out behind us and a beautiful rainbow appeared across the water.
Once the cell had passed completely, we continued on our way. Unfortunately as we got closer to Seaforth Channel it became clear that although it was calm in our anchorage, it was still windy in the channel and would be too windy for fishing, so we headed back.
We spent the afternoon exploring more of Discovery Bay. We went ashore in a few places, and went up into the forest. We found three Chanterelle mushrooms, in two different areas. It was not enough to pick, but it was enough to get our hopes up that we may be able to find more. We visited the area where we had picked huckleberries two months ago. All of the lower leaves on all of the bushes had been stripped clean. It was only the tallest of the bushes that had any leaves left on them at all. It would be interesting to know if it was a bear or a deer that had been eating the leaves. Many of the streams around the bay were clearly salmon spawning streams. There were carcasses left at each stream, and we saw several that had been carried well up into the forest. We also saw well-defined animal trails and bear scat in many areas.
Nice rainbow.
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