Made for St Johns Harbor this morning to find Mel and Bernice. Stopped on the way at Klemtu to use internet to purchase fishing licenses. Interact access was very tentative -- after many tries was able to complete the process for obtaining a fishing license for Barrie. Spent the next hour trying to duplicate the process and obtain a fishing license for me. No luck. One of the local residents offered to let me use the internet from his house -- a short walk away but by then we needed to leave the fuel dock so another boat could tie-up. So, no license for me this time.
While I struggled with the internet, Barrie poked his head in the salmon processing plant. Amazing. The plant employs 32 people (if the all show up) to gut fish and pack them in ice in styrofoam containers for transportation to Vancouver. Each truckload of fish represents $200,000 in sales and they send out four truckloads (on a barge) every two days -- $1,000,000 per week!!
Another day of calm seas and good weather caused us to consider taking the short-cut across Millbank Sound rather than through sheltered waters. The crossing was good but we did find combined seas (on our bow) of over 6 feet resulting in a very gentle rocking horse action. Arrived in St Johns Harbor about 1:30 and dropped the anchor.
When we parted company with Mel & Bernice in Shearwater almost 2 weeks ago, we knew they were headed to St Johns Harbor and that is was "just around the corner" from Shearwater. In a later conversation with Larry, I learned that Mel & Bernice had a dock that was "way back to the left after you entered the harbor". That was the extent of our directions to find them, so we dropped the dinghy and went off in search of them "camp". Boy, were they surprised when we arrived but we were greeted warmly and made plans to go fishing in the morning. Mel would pick us up in his 17 foot fishing boat at 5 am. We were to dress warmly and come prepared to catch fish.
No comments:
Post a Comment