A long run from Smith Inlet to Shearwater for the
night. Cloudy and sunny and the rain
appears to be chasing us. Fairly calm
but still quite a bit of a swell from the winds of the past few days. Lots of sea otters, humpback whales, and
Dahl’s porpoise.
Happy Birthday Shannon and Dorothy! We hope to get some phone calls out to wish
you a happy day!
Well, it is certainly a different Shearwater than we know. But is anything the same these days? There is only one pleasure craft at the docks in Shearwater. It starts to get crazy just after we enter the channel past Old Bella Bella. A small boat comes whizzing out to take photos of the names of our boats, nothing untoward, but after we arrive, we understand better. Can't say as we blame them!
We arrive and the dockmaster grills us on the radio as to where we're from, citizenship etc. We fill out two large sheets of paper and give up our first born (sorry CJ....) There are no precautions that were not taken (I know - double-negative!) Apparently, the situation is quite fluid up here, with the rules changing every day. The Helsiuk are taking no chances in getting Covid up here. There were apparently a couple of American boats and there was holy hell to be paid for that. No flags, and no port of registry on these boats. - there are about 100 fishboats (small gillnetters) tied up to both the fisherman's dock and to the Shearwater docks proper. They are obviously waiting for an opening!
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