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| Hand Harvesting Crabs |
August 17th through 18th
Secretary Islands and Ganges
Time
to slow down again. We anchor after a
short two hour hop, all by ourselves in a nook on the Secretary Islands. We meet our goal of being here early enough
for low tide and harvest oysters and clams.
Carl goes hand fishing for crab, wading up to his thighs in the shallows
and brings home two red rock crabs.
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| Crabbing. All Toes Accounted For! |
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| Watch out for that wake! |
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| Clam digging trio |
I
hike the island a bit. It is private but
not posted so I sit for awhile on the log bench overlooking Carl’s crabbing cove. I then hike further in to find an unusual
tennis court. It is entirely made of
wood, with elevated 2” x 12” floor joists over post and beam on concrete
footings. The sides are probably 15’
high netting surrounding the entire full size tennis court. Interesting to find out here. I figure that is enough exploring and head
back for a wonderful evening of reading in the cockpit by the light of our Luci
(solar powered lantern).
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| Tennis anyone? |
The 18th we make a three hour hop to
a completely different setting, the village of Ganges on Salt Spring
Island. We anchor out and dinghy
in. We see a boat similar to ours except
that it is the 36’ version. We visit
with the owners and they invite us in to see “Dave’s Gamble.” We discuss our boats at length and get
contact information. We invite them to
stop by but they are awaiting family and we all say perhaps another time. Ganges is a haven for artists and we visit
small galleries and gift shops. We enjoy
a good burger and brew at a tiny brew pub.
Back at the boat we turn in early for another early departure.
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| Artist's Sail Boat, and Yes, it Works! |
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