A mud bottom is the best type of bottom! What’s a muddy bottom? Who would want that? When looking for anchorages, we look for
inlets and bays on our charts with an “M” which signifies “MUD”. Our current anchor is called a “Plow”, which
is excellent for mud bottoms but not as great in weedy, sandy or rocky
bottoms. We can anchor in those areas
if we have to and there is minimal wind or we can deploy our second anchor
called, a “CQR”. The CQR is excellent
for lots of bottoms. On August 24th,
Marty had to work pretty hard to pull the anchor off the mud bottom. He thought we might have to use the boat
engine to dislodge the hook.
6:15 a.m. seems to be the time we regularly get up. Since we could not make our way to Campbell
River through Seymour Narrows until after 10:00, we decided to go fishing along
the east side of Discovery passage.
There were so many boats fishing:
Recreational, charters and commercial.
To add to the mix of dodging all these boats, there was a load of logs
being towed by two tugs (front and back).
By 10:00 a.m., it was time to leave, without catching anything and set sail. Once again, like in 2010, we are sailing wing-on-wing down “Discovery Passage.” We recalled the time when we heard another boat hailing us on Ch 16: “Wild Abandon, Wild Abandon, this is High Hopes, High Hopes on 1-6…” Sach and Jane were well over 2 nm away from us, (we couldn’t see them at all,) and we asked how they knew it was us. Jane said, “Who else would be sailing wing-on-wing down Discovery Passage?” Jane has amazing eyesight and she knows us too well.
While sailing, Mae whipped up some jumbo
blueberry muffins. Yummy!
In Campbell River, our friend Naomi came by for a
visit. We followed Naomi and John’s Blog
when they sailed for three years on SV Renova, as they travelled and completed
their Pacific Loop. They went to places
such as Mexico, the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands,
Samoa and the Marshall Islands.