Day 48 ~ Prince Rupert to Lowe Inlet, Grenville Channel

Before we left Prince Rupert, Derek and Eileen went to shore to get supplies and forgot the cabbage – for the second time, while Dad, Becca and I went to get fuel.  We departed later than normal in order to ride the current down Grenville Channel. Derek navigated our entire trip with Dad initially at the helm followed by Eileen. Our technology held most of the day allowing Dad, Becca and I to work.

At one point Derek made a comment that the long, long channel was just a bit boring. Then they spotted their first of many waterfalls. Later in the day, Dad was taking a nap, Becca was reading and the rest of us were on the bridge when Eileen jumped up and rapidly shut the boat down because she thought that we were running over a fishing net, it turned out to be bubbles. We finally had some excitement! 

We arrived in Lowe inlet to find another boat in our super secret cove and a wonderful waterfall at the head. As the evening approached, the tide changed and foam began to appear from the falls. We dropped the dinghy and Derek and Eileen went fishing. Dad, Becca and I reset the anchor because we were not happy with our holding. We dropped in 104 feet of water!  We had so much chain out that Dad decided it was a perfectly good opportunity to clean out the anchor well and re-flake the chain. This required us to play out all but the last few feet of the chain and then retrieve and flake it. We should have done this when Michael was on board! 

For dinner we had crab, 4 prawns and salmon on the grill. It was delicious. We couldn’t eat all the crab so Eileen, with compliments of Becca, believed that there were 5 clusters left, agreed to clean the rest. Dad did engine chores. The kids and I did the dishes. Then being the great kids that they are… Becca and Derek crawled around on the floor on their hands and knees and polished the galley floor, cushions and table.  

After chores we caught up on our cartography for the day by updating and creating float plans. For the record, I didn’t make up this word; the kids have promised me that this is a real word for using charts to dictate direction. After everything was done, Eileen finally surfaced from the cockpit with about 4 pounds of cleaned crab meat challenging Becca’s ability to count and complimenting her on her ability to sucker her into doing this tedious task.

The rain held off for the entire day but it started spitting as the sun set. We had a fun day with lots of laughter especially while preparing our blog update and fixing my spelling.