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| Raven Spirit coming out of the Fog |
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| Khutze in the Morning Fog |
Up Early
and off to Khutze Inlet. Perhaps one of
our favourite anchorages on the coast!
Thick pea soup fog greet us as we pull out and we are in the soup for
about 2 hours. Once we headed up
Finlayson Channel, it all disappeared with brilliant, cloudless skies of
blue! With luck, I can post this and
then get caught up in about a week. We
are nearing Klemtu which includes some cell and internet service.
After a brilliant day cruising to get to Khutze Inlet we are gleefully ready to drop anchor and drop our crab traps. What greets us is nothing short of being a participant in some sort of horror movie. (probably the starring roles!) As I go to the bow to ready the anchor, I am swarmed with deer flies, 100's of them. I ran back up to the bridge to get the bug spray, and saw Mike, with a zapper in both hands, trying to kill another 100. We have never seen so many of the painful buggers in our lives! We do get the anchor down and manage to go on a very big killing spree.....they appear to like the hot sunshine and anything that has a little dampness.....saltwater on the boat and human sweat perhaps? Temperature was up in the low 30's (Celsius) so equally as hot as in the lower mainland (Vancouver). I had some leftover screening that I found Mike Duct taping to the our bridge windows so that we wouldn't have to sit in side to get away from the nasty flies. The sun goes down and they go away, and in come the little black flies that are equally as horrible. We took the dinghy over to Raven Spirit for happy hour and burgers and not surprisingly, Faye went through the same trauma when she went to go drop the anchor!
We did run into Oceanaire and Dave and Penny joined us for a drink on Raven Spirit.
The next morning, after puppies went to shore, Rick came over by Dinghy to say, "We don't have to stay here"..........our anchor and crab trap was up so fast, I don't think Rick was even back to his own boat yet. Its a shame about the bugs, but was not nice being in amongst the beasties and not being able to sit out on such a hot day. Even the dogs and cats were not spared!
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| Leaving the Fog Behind enroute to Khutze Inlet |
After a brilliant day cruising to get to Khutze Inlet we are gleefully ready to drop anchor and drop our crab traps. What greets us is nothing short of being a participant in some sort of horror movie. (probably the starring roles!) As I go to the bow to ready the anchor, I am swarmed with deer flies, 100's of them. I ran back up to the bridge to get the bug spray, and saw Mike, with a zapper in both hands, trying to kill another 100. We have never seen so many of the painful buggers in our lives! We do get the anchor down and manage to go on a very big killing spree.....they appear to like the hot sunshine and anything that has a little dampness.....saltwater on the boat and human sweat perhaps? Temperature was up in the low 30's (Celsius) so equally as hot as in the lower mainland (Vancouver). I had some leftover screening that I found Mike Duct taping to the our bridge windows so that we wouldn't have to sit in side to get away from the nasty flies. The sun goes down and they go away, and in come the little black flies that are equally as horrible. We took the dinghy over to Raven Spirit for happy hour and burgers and not surprisingly, Faye went through the same trauma when she went to go drop the anchor!
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| Arrow Post coming out of the Fog |
We did run into Oceanaire and Dave and Penny joined us for a drink on Raven Spirit.
The next morning, after puppies went to shore, Rick came over by Dinghy to say, "We don't have to stay here"..........our anchor and crab trap was up so fast, I don't think Rick was even back to his own boat yet. Its a shame about the bugs, but was not nice being in amongst the beasties and not being able to sit out on such a hot day. Even the dogs and cats were not spared!
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| Waterfall in Khutz Inlet |
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| Khutze drying Delta @ zero Tide |
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