Today was a perfect sail day. Winds kicked up mid morning and as soon as we were out of Smugglers Bay Deep Bay
We took the dinghy to shore and found a nice trail of about 1-2 km leading across the island to an old homestead. The homestead included lots of meadows, orchards and deserted buildings. This seems like a very popular camping spot as we saw lots of tents. When we hiked to another small bay we spotted a sailboat that ran aground.
Late at night the sailboat that was aground arrived at our little bay and anchored off the channel. We were ready to leave around 9ish when we observed our raw water discharge was not as robust as it should be when starting the engine. We put our brains together and started trouble shooting. To keep a long diagnostic story short I will tell you we ended up replacing the impeller, removing a fish from the raw water filter and removing another fish from our raw water seacock valve. The fish in the seacock valve was so impacted that Paul had to surgically remove it in pieces. When we restarted the engine the water was flowing freely and life was good.
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| Tia was helping to manage some of the lines. Good crew is hard to come by. |
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| The trail passed through this really cool meadow. |
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| Paul at the edge of the Palmer homestead. Not much left now, but still a great place to visit. |
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| This boat apparently didn't check the depths before they set anchor. |
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| A river otter was playing in the water just behind the boat. |
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| We had to remove the engine raw water hose to remove one of the fish that had become wedged in the seacock. |
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| We found this fish in the raw water filter. In the end, there was a total of 4 fish that got into the system. How weird is that? |
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