Day 23-30 - Shawl Bay

We travelled another 10 Miles up Tribune Channel to one of our favorite spots to give them a hand getting ready for the season. We stopped at Burdwood group of islands on the way with the intent of anchoring for a night there prior to going into Shawl, but the wind had picked up again and the gale warnings were going to blow right into the anchorage, so better safe than sorry, into Shawl we go. Surprise...Surprise.....no one is there but the Cat and Dog.

We were shocked to pull in and see two new floathomes tied up to their docks. We were sure that there was another story to be had. Under the party Gazebo, there is a fairly new Hot Tub sitting in pieces - another Story? probably not until it gets hooked up....come on up Penny..... Sometime early evening Rob comes in as he has just been to Port McNeil dropping off Lorne and Shawn for their week out. Oh well, we can still do what we came to do with or without them. We have had the burn barrel going non stop, we are now out of paint and the hose on the power washer is broken. Good Thing we are going to Port McNeil tommorrow....you guessed it, we are close to running out of Beer!!! Things are looking spanky here and we hope to get the painting and other odd jobs done towards the end of the week. Lorne will be quite surprised to come back to see all the clean up that we have all done (Maybe its a good thing he wasn't here!)

Back to the story on the two float homes....for those that don't know Shawl Bay, it is a community of floating homes around the perimeter of the bay. Other than Lorne's place, all the other homes are summer places. High winds broke the anchors on these two homes which are actually a fishing lodge and the homes ended up broken up on the beach. The owners of the homes, had lumber dumped off at the docks here and Lorne and Robbie have been working on rebuilding the two homes and they should be towed out of here within the next week or so and re anchored in their old spot.

Mike is now busy getting ready to varnish as we hope to have a few more days of sunshine. Spring is finally here. I am going to do some trap maintenance and then drop both my crab and prawn traps for a seafood feast tommorrow night.