July 3rd Fish Basin to Ahclakerho Islands

July 3 Fish Basin to Ahclakerho Islands                      We depart at 0730 so we will have a slack before flood to enter the Ahclakerho channel.  We all call this the Abracadabra channel since we keep stumbling over the pronunciation.  We quickly spot large whales in the distance on either side of us in MacBride Bay and Boswell Inlet.

Entomologist Pictograph

We go through the Ahclakerho Channel narrows at high tide pausing long enough to find the pictograph.  Hamilton’s book (Cruising the Secret Coast) describes it as a 1foot high bug done in ochre.  Our photos and binoculars show it to also have a face on the body of a bug.  Scientists that we are we decide that a very early entomologist decided to let people know that they had been here.

This time we set the anchor as we need to be doing more testing and practice with our new Magnus anchor.  The chain sounds different so after we set the hook we trade places, Carl coming to the anchor and Pam to the helm and set it again to see if we both think it is set well.  It is.  B Mondo ties up alongside and we get on with afternoon activities.  Walt sets off in a dinghy, Odile in a kayak, Carl and Pam in a dinghy.  Crab and shrimp pots are set, fishing is done and no decent fish is harvested.