Hot Springs, Otters, and Gunnel Fish

October 1st (Tuesday) It has been five full wonderful months since we left Vancouver. On one hand it feels like we have been away for a long time, and on the other hand it feels like time flies by. Even though we do not have a regular job for which we get paid, we have lots of work to do, and it seems that we still never have enough time for everything. We still have so much we need to do, and so much more that we want to do, and the days keep flying by. In the morning we spent time attempting to fix the leak in the hot spring pool. We had come up with many repair options through brainstorming last night, but since we had not been able to inspect the area well yesterday, we did not really know what we were getting into. We took a lot of options with us from the boat, and went ashore to inspect. Unfortunately, it seemed to be a whole series of cracks with no clear origin on the inside. Because it was not possible to stop all of the water flowing in, there was still a bit of water run...