Our Days in Von Donop Inlet
On Tuesday (May 7th) we went for a 10 km hike, round-trip, from our anchorage to the small village of Squirrel Cove. The town consisted of one general store, a craft store, and a restaurant that was closed for the day. Luckily we had brought our own lunch, and had a picnic on the beach. After lunch we went to the General store and bought some ice cream, which we wrapped in a jacket and backpack, and took with us to roughly half the way back before sitting on a lovely wooden bench in a sunny patch in the middle of a beautiful forest to eat our pistachio ice cream! When we got back to our anchorage we went for a lovely paddle. It was quite low tide which exposed the very muddy areas along the shore. There were some people with their speed boat beached high and dry digging for clams. It got us thinking, and after checking to make sure there was no red-tide closures we grabbed a bucket and a shovel and went digging; yes, we have a shovel on our sailboat, doesn't everyone? :) There we...