Aug. 2. It was a quiet night moored at one of 4 DFO (Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans) mooring buoys, with one other small motor boat. I was a little worried about the shallowness in the cove but we still had about 14 feet of water under us at low tide, even though the charts showed that we could have had more like 7 or 8 feet ( we draw 5 feet). I rowed Pi into shore for an onleash walk in very shallow water to get to and from the beach. It was about a 4.5 hour motor into Winter Harbour where we tied up at The Outpost Marina dock. We had to wait a bit for fuel attendant/store attendant. While we waited; we checked out the only store in the town of about 20 full time residents. At this time of year the campgrounds and marinas and fishing resorts are packed. There is a connected gravel road into town and a lot of people tow their boats here. The store did not have much in the way of groceries, however they did have a good stock of alcohol and fishing and boating supplies. Go figure. We picked up a few staples and some wine, beer and cocktail makings. After we fueled up we moved over to the nearby dock to top up our water and see if there was any room for us on the dock for the night. The recreational fishers were all coming in at this time in the afternoon and it was quite spectacular the amount of salmon, ling cod and halibut that was being cleaned on the docks. Once we topped our water we decided to use the close by pay showers and move to a nearby anchoring site just out of the main harbour. It was a nice quiet secure anchorage that we shared with one other sailboat. We planned on an early start in the morning for a long day of travel, hopefully to round Cape Cook. The marine weather forecast was moderately encouraging. HH on deck, a quick canned chili dinner and off to bed; earlyish.
