August 15,16 & 17 - Fury Cove to Jennis Bay

Bravo from Jennis was attacked by a wolf - lost his eye

The end of Wayne & Cathy's Great Alaskan Adventure

Towing a New Cabin back to Jennis

Yummy Mussels off the log boom!

Less & Less of this old coastal ferry remain

Fireworks put on by Jennis Bay

A "bare" of a different kind

Jennis Bay cook house and gift store

We pulled out in thick as pea soup fog and headed south for the Broughtons. We pulled out with about 5 other boats from Fury and we all set our radars to "3 Mile" and proceeded to thread the rocks from Fury to Wells Passage. This is the first time in about 20 years that yours truly got a bit sea sick. I don't know if it was because I was reading or because the swells were genuinely making me ill. Oh well, it only lasted an hour and I was right as rain. There was no chop but a gentle swell from the west. Halfway downn, we started to here chatter between some of the other south bound travelling boats and the Seattle Ferry "Columbia" - and there looming out of the fog and coming in between us and some rocks was the biggest, bluest, gigantic Ferry steaming towards us. We are amiss to understand why in dense fog, the ferry would have taken the most treacherous route for the crossing? All other large vessels go out in the middle and stay in their perspective shipping lanes. They were a bit nasty to some of the boats on the radio and I am sure there will be some letters written as to the stupidity of the ferry.
The fog lifted when we were almost in Wells Passage and we decided to go into Drury Inlet to see Jennish Bay as Wayne and Cathy had never been. A three night stay is in order so that we can do the motorbiking and gunkholing portion of our stay. Check back with you later with photos and adventures.

Day 2 in Jennish - The marina is full and we are very pleased for the owners! There is a group here from Salt Spring Yacht Club and they are having a ball having a rendevous and playing real life survivor. Deep fried Kelp was in there pot luck supper (kind of like kelp chips). The boys went biking with Wayne taking a turn on Dave's bike to explore all of the back roads here. They found the lake and I beleive that Dave and Penny went Chunky Dunkin'! (refer to Ketchikan post for definition) We went high speed gunkholing up into Acteon Sound and up to Tsibass lagoon. At the entrance we ran into the gang from Saltspring Yacht Club with the help of Tom the owner, towing back an old float house to Jennish Bay. Quite the undertaking as it is a bit lopsided and in danger of sinking on the one end.
The water in the lagoon was 74 degrees, too bad the tide switches so quickly as we would have gone for a swim. If you miss the tide change in this lagoon, you will find yourselves going down a waterfall in your dinghy with rocks and other dangers all around. We did manage to make it to the end of the lagoon for the first time! On the way back, we stopped at the old logging camp and there on the log booms, was a Sow black bear and cub, feeding off of the mussels growing on the boom. Another First!

Our new friends Pete the Plumber and his wife Donna were also here as was Ocean Dawn (we met in Ocean Falls & Shearwater). We invited them in the Dinghy with Mike and I went with Cathy on our gunkhole (assuming they signed a waiver.....j/k) Alot of fun was had and we settled into our last night of cards with the 6 of us as Wayne & Cathy are hot footing it back to Vancouver for BYC Club duties.