8 Sep 22

It was a fine morning in Vancouver Roscoe Inlet, although once again we regretted anchoring on the south shore, where we do not get the morning sun. After breakfast, Ashley and AJ took the dinghy ashore and hiked up the trail to Mt. Llanover; the views were excellent. Terri and I hung out on the boat and caught up on our reading and boat cleaning. The kids got back about 14:00 and we got underway shortly after that. On our way out of the inlet, we stopped to collect the prawn trap (it had drifted about 400 m to the south of where we dropped it), which had 26 fat prawns in it. Once we had cell service, Ashley attempted to change their departing flights from Campbell River to Comox, but there were no available seats, so we are committed to Campbell River tomorrow. We considered diverting to Cortez Bay to save a few miles today and tomorrow, but Massilia is still without an operating head, so they preferred Lund. We had a nice sail after the prawns were boiled and tailed and goose-winged it with the pole out to port all the way down Thuling Passage until the entry to Lund. During our sail down Thuling Passage, we heard the news that Queen Elizabeth II had just died after a reign of more than 70 years; we lowered the courtesy flag to half-staff. The Queen is dead, long live the King - Charles III. The Lund harbour manager had already gone home for the day when we arrived and we were reluctant to raft to anyone without permission, so we tied up on the inside of the #3 floating breakwater; it’s okay, but there is no power, water or access to shore, except by dinghy. Nevermind; we had prawn heads (popcorn) for Captain’s Hour and prawn polenta for dinner. After dinner, we had a command performance encore concert of the Roscoe Inlet Boat Trash Jug Band; Ashley has now taken up the harmonica (mouth harp) and did some excellent solos on “Those Were the Days” and “Sunrise, Sunset”, to name a couple. AJ rocked it on the strum stick; it sounded like a 5-string banjo.

49-58.815’N, 124-45.846’W; Log = 13.5, Sum (2022) = 950.1; Eng hrs = 2.1, Sum = 3066.2