More excitement...

So, it seems that I have been leaving out "Rock" from our name...this may be due to trying to avoid hitting them!!!!! Our name though still is "Circle the Rock".

Peter has reported that many of our faithful readers are anxiously waiting for a close up shot of a sea otter...let me tell you this is not easy...they are very shy creatures here is the best shot I have but I understand that Allan and Anna have a great shot, I will send this out once Allan is able to send these pictures to me. We have been told that there are around 2000 otters between Brooks and Nootka Sound, they are eating all the crabs that live above 200 ft. It seems otters cannot go down beyond that depth.

This is a picture of between 40 to 50 sea otters rafting together in Winter Harbour...

After Walters Cove I mentioned that Propinquity was going on to  Fair Harbour to pick up Mary and Kirk. Mary is staying on board for a couple nights and ask Kirk (fresh meat) will be replacing Paul on Propinquities journey south. 

Side bar....Propinquity now has Peter, Paul and Mary back on board. For those of you who have been following this blog closely you will remember that this occurred only one other time...yes, it was at Port McNeil...Rick the music guy is very happy.

We hope to see Paul and Mary again around Tofino.

Thursday, July 18th....the excitement...

Mary and Paul are on board but...

Before they had gone too far from the dock the ruder jammed!!! The good news is that they were able with some fancy maneuvering (threw out the anchor and took a stern line to shore) to get back to the dock with no damage. Bottle of scotch and a few hours later the ruder was fixed. Propinquity stayed the night in Fair Harbour and the next morning they sailed onto Dixie Cove where Blue An Teak and Dance Lightly spent an un eventful evening...a beautiful evening but un eventful!!!

Silhouette stayed in "Petroglyph Cove or better know as "Blue Lip Cove" Thrursday night. They reported the next day that this cove was like a pool...trees surrounding the cove, eagles soaring and schools of makeral everywhere. They were not able to meet up with their friends. We were told though that their friends did knock on the sail boat "Gavia" in Walters Cove looking for Silhouette...too bad they 'sued each other.

Dixie Cove was also a WOW...beautiful calm water, an outer and an iner cove. we stayed in the inner cove and enjoyed a great night watching eagles and otters. Anna and Allan had a great paddle around the cove..

Good night from "Circle the Rock"