Sunday, June 22, 2025
Shannon and David left this morning after a couple of days with us. Sorry to see them go! We always have so much fun together.
Our friends from Blakely Island, Marc and Beth, arrived today on Kenmore and we met them out in the channel outside Prideaux Haven with the big boat
and proceeded to head up to our next destination, Pendrell Sound. Pendrell is a
family favorite destination as the water in the height of summer can reach
temperatures above 70 degrees, so it’s a delightful place for water sports and
swimming. It is also a place where we feel safe to harvest clams and oysters.
BC has shellfish consumption warnings year round because they can’t keep track
of when it is safe and when it is not safe to eat the bivalves. We harvest them
at a location where a freshwater stream converges with the seawater and flushes
them each day with the tidal changes. We’ve never had an issue. We motored up
to Pendrell slowly so we could make water (we have a water maker onboard) and
do laundry. Arriving in Pendrell we were the ONLY boat in the inlet (until
later that day when a sailboat came in and anchored around the corner out of
sight), which is normally wall to wall boats in the height of summer! We
anchored just outside the back bay on a shallower shelf and settled in for a
peaceful afternoon on the hook. Dinner was Grilled Chicken Thighs with Summer
Corn Salad and a beautiful green salad. The sun came out and we dined topside.
Pendrell still hasn’t recovered from the wildfire in 2018 that devastatingly
burned an enormous swath of the beautiful, forested shores surrounding the
sound. It is now dotted with dead trees mixed in with some green from the trees
that survived. The ground cover and new seedlings are sprouting up so maybe in
another 10-15 years the dead wood will be less obvious. And they believe the
fire was manmade, caused by a boater who built a campfire ashore to burn
garbage.
Shannon and David leaving us today.....
The view looking northeast in Pendrell Sound, with our boat the white spec in the right hand side of the shoreline. Note no other boats.
Closer view of the fire damage. The notch you see is at the top of a trail we used to hike to, but now it's impassible with all the blow down of burned trees. Used to be lush forest.
Our anchorage looking southeast
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