EIGHT FATHOM BIGHT AT ANCHOR
Sunday,
June 21st
Happy Father’s Day
and it’s also Summer Solstice! As my father would say, “after today the days
are getting shorter.” Woke up to Miami Beach again! No wind, bountiful
sunshine, ah….this is the way it’s supposed to be. I quietly got up and let my
skipper sleep in since he had a fairly sleepless night. Eventually Connie was
also up and we set out to retrieve our crab traps – Connie had a female in one
and a bullhead fish in the other. I scored two keepers, one missing a claw, and
a few females but nothing at all what we expected since the commercial crabbers
clearly think this is a hot spot. We decided to move them into the back bay
closer to our boats where the commercial crabbers also had set some pots in 20’
of water. Today was glorious sunshine all day and no wind, our best weather day
yet, and so nice to be on anchor not at a dock. I spent the morning making some
white chicken chili for future days I don’t feel like cooking, and with the
leftover chicken made some buffalo chicken wing dip for a future happy hour,
both headed to the freezer. Also whipped up some pico de gallo for tonight’s
dinner of halibut tacos with our fresh hali! Then John and I spent an hour
vacuum sealing our haul from yesterday. Next up was a very long kayak trip for
Connie and me, gliding through the smooth waters surrounding us, again looking
for bears. None. We think maybe it’s because there is no water feature back
here, no stream where salmon would return to, but who knows. Chichagof Island
is supposed to have the largest population of brown bears in the world, so we
had higher expectations! We pulled our pots later in the afternoon, Connie got
one keeper and a large starfish, and I caught the bullhead this time, but
nothing else. So much for crabbing here. Tonight was the first time it was warm
enough to have dinner outside, and we spent the entire evening until close to
10PM, relaxing and visiting with the Abells on the back deck, it was a superb night. Lucky us.
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