June 26th Lund to Cod Cove Desolation
Sound
Having enjoyed our breakfast and stocked up on
still warm blackberry cinnamon rolls we head out of Lund. As we start to untie a very large power yacht
slams into the dock within feet of us.
The Warfinger (harbor master) is not pleased! Given the tight quarters now, and a wind
blowing us onto the dock we accept a helpful hand from the warfinger and head
out of Lund.
We have a short trip to find B Mondo, Walt and
Odile’s boat, anchored in Cod Cove off of East Redondo Island in Desolation
Sound. Once in the Sound we find
favorable wind and have our first, real sail.
We shake out the reef in the main sail (that has been in place since
before we crossed the Columbia River bar) and hoist both sails and spend the
next four hours jibbing back and forth across Homfrey Channel until we see B
Mondo at anchor.
Taking down the sails we motor over to and tie
up to B Mondo. Safely setting lots of
fenders we climb aboard B Mondo to catch up with Walt and Odile. This is quite a windy spot and we keep watch
on the rocky shore. We keep drifting
more towards the rocks so a quick decision is made to separate and go find
another anchorage. We skip across the
Channel and enter Laura Cove, a beautiful, well protected anchorage. After we raft up to B Mondo we can now relax
and really catch up with our friends.
Walt and Odile have harvested fresh oysters at the
local oyster bar and found Little Neck clams to dig and they share their bounty
with us. Carl bbq’s fresh oysters, Odile
steams a mess of clams and Pam provides salad and street fair fresh herb
bread. Dessert is sharing one of those
wonderful blackberry cinnamon rolls.
We chart our course for the next day agreeing to
turn the motors on at 0700 so we can reach a series of rapids at the correct
time for passage.
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