August 8th Fury Cove to Bunden Harbour
6:00 am departure Foggy, once again
It was a stinky muddy mess after we hauled the anchor up. The chain links were covered in mud which created a challenging clean up this morning. Before shoving off, we put the fish in the water. We were off to the “big water” today rounding Cape Caution and passing Egg Island, and we wanted every advantage. To our dismay, we woke up to another foggy morning. Visibility was about a half mile.
During our journey, there was a radio call concerning an American traveler who had fallen off a dock. He was unhurt but had lost his wallet in about 20 feet of water. Apparently, a lot of cash was having an unexpected swim, as well. A diver was being requested to retrieve the wallet.
The BC waters have produced many floating logs and one managed to hook on to our fish cable. We had to stop and use our pike pole to push it off. It eased off easily since the seas were so smooth. No wind on the water creating waves…no wind to blow that annoying fog away!
After 8 hours of fog fatigue, we pulled in to Blunden Harbour to find it drenched in sunshine! That was our reward.
Last time we were here, we spotted a mama bear and cubs on the shore so we were on bear watch. They didn’t show up for the party.
David often wakes up in the wee hours of the morning and reads. Last night while in Fury Cove, he turned his light on and began reading and was attacked by hundreds of gnats (we keep our windows open). He slammed his book closed and went below to read for a while. When he opened his book back up, he found the pages covered with scores of little black dots…gnat punctuation.
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