August 3, 2013 ~ Sullivan Bay

It didn’t rain, but the dew here is so thick that the deck looks like it rained, and even a couple of the leaks into the house wake up too.  There was some fog as well.  It was the firs day of the two day fishing derby, so there were a few anglers heading out in the early morning to catch the tide. 

We busied ourselves with the remaining clean-up chores, and I spent time working on the aft head, which has malfunctioned again.  It’s not one of my favorite things to fix, so I won’t expound on the details here – I’ll just say it’s good to have another head on the boat for situations like this.

Laura and Lynn were scheduled to arrive today on Kenmore Air.  I walked over to the seaplane float around their scheduled arrival time of 12:30 and asked when the Kenmore flight was expected.  “Not due until between 1:30 and 2:30”, said the marina manager.  I started walking back to the boat, and within 5 minutes I heard the turboprop in the distance and saw the Kenmore colors on the incoming seaplane.  Our guests arrived only a few minutes late.  They brought some extra luggage, with treats such as cheese, steaks, hamburger, some magazines from our mail, which was being collected by our neighbor Colleen, and most importantly, a couple gallon Zip Loc bags of kitty litter for Tribble, who was most appreciative, whether she knew it or not.

Rebecca and Erin admire the halibut catch

We had invited John and Rebecca to join us for dinner this evening, but at the time had no specific plans as to what the menu would be.  They did their fishing for the derby in the early afternoon and came back with a couple of halibut, the larger one weighing in at 19 pounds.  Rebecca was cleaning their fish at the community fish cleaning station, and the conversation came up among some of the other fishermen about how they didn’t care for halibut cheeks.  Well, those halibut cheeks didn’t go to waste – Rebecca skillfully extracted them from the other halibut carcasses as well as their own, and gave them to Erin.  That became the main course for our dinner tonight.  We had a wonderful dinner with great conversation this evening, including a few fish tales.  We had our log books here from some of our previous trips, and opening the book from our last trip to the Broughtons it fell open to the day we arrived at Dickson Island where Trav and Barb were rafted up with John and Rebecca.  The bearings had just started going out on one of our turbo chargers, making quite a whine, and the log entry referred to getting an opinion and advice from John.  This led to many more boating tales, and a perusal of the repower book, which John took back to their boat to review.

We played cards late into the evening with Lynn and Laura, playing a game Lynn brought called “Phase 10” – kinda rummy-like, but not really. 

We most likely will go somewhere and anchor tomorrow afternoon, maybe nearby where we can do some crabbing.  We have no specific plans, so we can’t go wrong.