17 Aug 22

After a good night’s sleep, I awoke to the cry of the loon at 06:00 and could not get back to sleep. I got up about 06:30 to a pea soupah, as they say in Maine. It was lovely and quiet and I got a few interesting photos as the fog lifted through the morning. We had to collect our prawn traps and we had a tidal gate to get through at Quatsino Narrows, so we had the anchor aweigh before 10:00. First, we motored back to just outside of Coal Harbour to collect our traps; ours had 25 medium to small prawns (plus a whole bunch or little ones and a small red-rock crab, that I threw back) and John had about 11 or 12 good sized prawns. After that we headed for Quatsino Narrows, which we entered at LW slack. On the outside of the narrow, I put my salmon line down on the north side of Quattische Island. As we neared the NW corner of the island, I killed the motor and we sailed under jib alone for a while. After only 5 minutes or so, I had a hit and reeled in a 20.5 inch Coho salmon. We doused the sail and motored the rest of the way to Julian Cove, where we anchored at 12:38. As soon as the hook was set, I cleaned the salmon, Terri having already boiled up the prawns. It was a very nice piece of meat. After I filleted it, Terri cut it up into pieces for 3 meals. John and Laurie rafted up beside us a few minutes later. We spent the afternoon hiding from the sun, as it was hot with no wind at all until about 17:00. For Captain’s Hour, we had our prawns on crackers with cream cheese and John fried the prawn heads (pop-corn shrimp heads) along with a well-deserved G&T. We had a nice piece of fresh Coho for dinner. Julian Cove is another beautiful cove and we are all alone again - blowing NW 15-25 outside, but calm in here; we did not go ashore in the afternoon, but enjoyed another fantastic sunset. 

50-29.131’N, 127-36.544’W; Log = 10.8, Sum (2022) = 650.4 N-m; Eng. hr. = 2.7, Sum = 3009.1