July 7th - 8th Dawson's Landing to Green Island Anchorage to Foughner Bay

July 7^th – 8^th Dawson’s Landing to Green Island Anchorage to Foughner Bay            They do not rise early at the store here so we had to hang out until 0900 to pay for our moorage.  This gave us an opportunity to watch the helicopter make two crew ferry trips and talk briefly to the pilot as he was loading up a technician to go move a radio repeater.  Then we untied, met up with B Mondo down the channel and travelled a short day to Green Island Anchorage off Fitz Hugh Sound. 

We stop to fish an underwater rock, without any luck.  We see another sailboat, “Hakea”, approaching.  I think they are coming over to make sure we are OK.  I give them the thumbs up, she responds the same and then they start to leave.  As they spot B Mondo they pull over.  Given that they have a French flag on the back we assume that Odile and they are carrying on a lively discussion in French.  We find out later that indeed, they did have a nice discussion in French.  They are travelling round the world in their aluminum boat.  It looks similar in design to B Mondo, also aluminum.  They say au revoir and head out to continue their journey.  

Today, July 8, Carl is 64!  Happy Birthday Carl!  We fish another underwater rock while Walt and Odile try their luck on salmon.  They have a downrigger, often used for salmon as normally you fish fairly deep for them.  Within a very short time they hale us on the radio.  They have already landed a very nice, 10 pound salmon fishing shallow (28’) on a green flasher with silver spoon.  They are done for the day.  We have caught and released at least a dozen nice rockfish so we too are ready to hit the road.

We tour Namu Harbour, once a thriving now full of derelict, abandoned buildings at water’s edge.  Then we tuck into Foughner Bay for the night.  We have hours of rain yet are snug under our bimini.  Pam experiments with blue tarps on the sides so that sometime next winter she can sew canvas sides that are placed to keep the rain out yet allow us to still enjoy the view while we sit and read in the rain. 

Dinner is fresh Coho salmon in foil with a little mayo and capers, which makes a wonderfully creamy sauce to put over the top of potatoes.  We toast Carl whose gifts are a new stocking cap from Dawson’s Landing from Pam and a Rigged Squid Green Splatter Back fishing lure from Walt and Odile.  We follow this with a rousing card game called “Man Bites Dog.”

We check the drifting logs, each with an evil looking face on them, as they come in to attack the boats around 10:00 PM.  Two logs rafted together launch a bow to stern attack which we fend off with our trusty boat pole.  In the morning we see the logs high and dry at the end of the cove.