Another Try at Fishing
February 3rd (Monday) The sky cleared last night, and we could see the moon and some stars through a thin layer of cloud. In the morning our cleared area of dock, where Jason had shovelled the snow yesterday, was covered in a thick layer of frosty ice. The remaining snow on the dock, which had been wet yesterday, was frozen solid. Many seals were hauled out on the log breakwater in front of the marina. The logs were snow-covered, and the seals seemed to be holding their heads and tails up higher, leaving less of their bodies touching the cold logs. The seals, with their winter coats, look like they are velvet when they are dry. In particular, there are a few of them that are pitch black, and when the top half of them dries, as they lay on the log, their hair fluffs up and looks just like soft velvet. Although we were discouraged from our lack of luck fishing yesterday, we bundled up again today and headed out. The conditions were good, with light winds, so we thought...