Success, Dungeness Crabs for Dinner!!!

Soaking in natural hot springs, Bishop Bay B.C.

The "dock" at Butedale old cannery.

Cannery building falling back into ocean

Beautiful waterfull at Namu abandoned cannery

Lee and Todd on Fishing Boat

Salmon Fishing with downriggers

Shearwater Marina and fishing resort

We were joined by my nephew, Todd, in Shearwater. He flew in on a small plane to a landing strip. The terminal was basically non existant. Shearwater is known to be a great place to fish for salmon. So, since I'm not the best fisherman, we hired a professional guide to take us fishing for King Salmon for 6 hours. Well, the net affect of this, was ZERO fish!.. And was it ever COLD! I had on two pairs of very heavy socks and boots, and just froze! Not pleasant at all and made especially unpleasant since we had no food. Shearwater features a small restaurant, boat yard, and grocery store. The grocery store is resupplied by barge once every two weeks. So, knowing we'd need milk and other fresh produce we ordered this two weeks in advance of our arrival so they could store it in the refrigerator. Milk cost over $8 per gallon! But if you're out of milk, you don't mind, just happy to receive it. We left Shearwater the next day transiting the inside passage heading to Prince Rupert where Todd would fly home to his home in North Carolina a week later. We stopped at interesting anchorages as well as another abandoned cannery. We fished most every day as well as caught dungeness crabs. It was a lot of fun and again we were blessed with great weather. The next blog will have the pictures of this trip.

CHUCK AT OCEAN FALLS

LOCAL CHARACTER AND BROTHER IN LAW

OCEAN FALLS

FOG MOVING IN AT OCEAN FALLS
Ocean Falls is a community of 50 people, in the summer time! :) At one time there was a very large paper mill here that many years ago closed down. Now the city is actually a ghost town, with buildings that are falling apart and a few people wandering around. About a mile down the road from the dock is where the people live, mostly people trying to make this into a summer destination for vacation homes. This is also located at the deadend of a very long fiord. There is an electrical generation facility here which is enough to power a small town, but instead supplies power to 50 people and then there are transmission lines going about 15 miles to an indian community of a few hundred. The Ocean Falls Power Plant! The weather here was drizzly but not too cold. The winds were calm, and then our second night here (yes we stayed two nights)a fierce wind of over 40 knots came out of nowwhere rocking our boat and ripping our flag. Not predicted and not expected. I always tie the boat very well, and was I ever glad I did. One hour later it was calm again. Very strange.