Water Taxi

Thursday August 13^th – Our friends took Skylar and went around the corner to a secret beach to go clamming.  They came back with a huge bucket load of nice clams!  Our destination today is Pendrell Sound (15.76nm).  Pendrell’s claim to fame is the warmest water in the area and we were all eager to check it out.  Our friends have cruised this area for many years and we have only been here one other time so we were excited to have a tour guide for the next few days.

We stayed at Squirrel through lunch then we all took off for Pendrell Sound.  Todd and Tami’s friend Keith and his son Kelton were coming up on a ferry to spend some time in the islands.  They needed to be picked up in Lund but cell service up here is not the best so they were not sure what time they would arrive.  After waiting around in Refuge Cove for a while they left and joined us in Pendrell.  Just then the messages came that Keith was waiting in Lund.  Todd and Tami took off in their 17’ dinghy to run the 40nm round trip to Lund – quite a distance in the little boat and it was getting late.

We all swam in the warm water and had dinner while waiting for our friends to return.  As the sun started to set we all got a little worried about them.  Based on our calculations they were about an hour overdue.  I called them on the VHF radio – no answer, but just then we could see them arriving in the distance.  Everyone felt relieved!

Trip Log – 278.06nm