August 6, 2004
Fury Cove (N 51° 29' W 127° 45')
We moved from Pruth Bay to Fury Cove today. I tried fishing at Pruth Bay yesterday but didn't have any luck. Also I was the only guy out there in his inflatable so I felt a little self conscious. No problem. We still have a freezer full of fish so we're not going to be going hungry anytime soon.
We spent most of the day yesterday lounging on the beach north of Pruth Bay. We were the only ones on the beach the entire time we were there. It would have been just like Mexico except for two things: the water temperature was a chilly 55° F, and I didn't have a cold Corona.
Fury Cove is a pretty neat place. The last two or three times we've been through here I never had the nerve to pull in. Today I found out how simple it is to get into this anchorage. Canadian charts are covered with places like this. They look like great places to stay, secure and cozy, but when you try to figure out the path for getting in you can't seem to find a way around all the rocks! Then someone tells you the path to take (or you read it in a book as in this case) and all of a sudden it's easy to find the entrance and weave your way in.
The dominating feature of Fury Cove is a number of white sand beaches strung between small islets. These beaches are all that separate the anchorage from the wide open Pacific. This way we can get up tomorrow morning and take a look out the window to see if we want to leave. Convenient!
Our bug bites are still causing us a great deal of discomfort. I woke up last night because of the itching. I got up to put some Stop Itch on them and that helped a little, but the thing that got me back to sleep was a dose of 600 mg of ibuprofen. Hopefully we're done with the white socks for awhile. Either that or we should just put some repellent on!
BIG NEWS! We have a new email address: WBD3734@sailmail.com. If you have been using KE6HUA@winlink.org please use the SailMail address instead. Of course you can still leave your comments on the blog instead of sending email directly (but remember they don't call it the World Wide Web [www] for nothing; everything you post there is PUBLIC).
Tomorrow we plan on heading around to the west side of Vancouver Island which involves rounding the dreaded Cape Scott. Last time Cape Scott was the easiest part of the trip. We'll see this time. There is a low pressure system forecast to come through tomorrow but it's not supposed to be very strong. We're hoping we can sail out with the pre-frontal southeasterly wind and then round Cape Scott with the post-frontal northwesterlies. We'll see.
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