Another beautiful sunny day greets us this morning. I was up early, wanting to get my paddle in before it got too hot. I started out at the head of our little cove, being careful to avoid the narrows for Cridge Lagoon and Tuwartz Narrows, where the current can get pretty strong at times. I took a peek at the rapids at the entrane to Cridge Lagoon and decided I didn’t really need to see what was back there.

I was happy to just poke around Tuwartz Lagoon, which is beautiful.

A commercial crabber was pulling his traps, and he had a lot of them.

As he was leaving, I spotted dolphins playing in his wake. They were too quick for me to get a shot, however. Darn!

When I got back to the boat, Al was busy trying to find the source of a small leak that was generating about a gallon of water in our bilge every day. He’d noticed recently that the fresh water pump has been cycling on about every 5 minutes. When he checked the plumbing in the head, he discovered that a cone washer on the cold water pipe for the sink in our head was leaking. Al had helped our friend Doug MacGillivray fix the same fitting on his boat several years ago, and learned that he needed a special tool to make the job easier, which Al bought, luckily. So, within a short time, he replaced the cone washers on both the hot and cold water pipes. No more leak.

The weather is so good for traveling, and the tide right now is high enough for us to get through the narrows, so we decide to head for MacDonald Cove on Gil Island, just an hour run from here.