Red Bluff

July 19th
Red Bluff - We are ready to check our shrimp pot, but before we can a couple of men dingy over and ask if we hit their pot yesterday on our way in to anchor. Of course we didn't, but they had thought we had hit theirs, and put ours there to repay them. Mmmm, interesting idea - but NO! They gave us our shrimp pot and informed us it had no shrimp in it - but theirs had 135!. I was practically salivating thinking about the shrimp, I even asked if we could buy some from them. No, they weren't for sale. Now we have no shrimp and our pot isn't even reset. Well, you can imagine the story I concocted about those ....guys. Well, a few hours later we heard the putt-putt of a dingy and there is one of the men with cleaned shrimp and an offer to reset our pot. Mmmm, what will we have for dinner tonight - Humble pie and Shrimp. From now on we will call this cove - Humble Shrimp Cove.

July 20th
Eagles, eagles and more eagles. At the end of our cove, where the stream meets the water of the cove the eagles are meeting. We aren't sure what they are meeting about, but something is going on. We count at least 40, huge adults and some younger eaglets. They are all just standing around or perched on stumps - we keep waiting for something exciting to happen, but there doesn't seem to be much excitement - except us on the boat, going crazy over seeing them everywhere. Later in the day we pulled up our shrimp pot and...no shrimp. Maybe we can "borrow" some from another pot and reset it with new bait. We pulled up the boat that had obviously been there for a long time. We found a stone fish in the pot with his mouth full of shrimp - Stone fish are very poisoness, so we carefully sent him back to the sea and "borrowed" a few shrimp for us....Ssshhh don't tell. We think the trap may have been lost or abandoned, so really we helped that poor fish and those shrimp, they were either going to be eaten by the fish or by us...might as well have been us! I even cleaned the little buggers later. Pulling their heads off was the worst part. There bulgy eyes kept looking at me, until we put them in the freezer for awhile to "cool off".

July 21
We moored in Kake last night. We had to carefully choose what dock to tie up to, because most of the docks were leaning to one side or the other. Kake's dock needs some repair - like most of the boats on the dock. We walked to the SOS store and arrived 10 minutes before closing. We grabbed supplies quickly and walked back to the boat.