PWS - Memorial Weekend 2014 (Day 2)

Night 1 was pretty difficult. Between out kid's inability to fall asleep (the boat! the ocean! the excitement!) - then our having to pull anchor and move in the middle of the night (twice) because of rough water - and THEN Boyd's early morning freakout - it made for very little sleep for everyone.

Saturday was bear bait day. After a very late start (thank you, screaming toddler), D trolled and fished for a couple hours. Then we stopped at bear bait station 1 to prep it for hunting.

Row, row, row your boat. 

Somebody swamped his boots and had to change out the whole bottom portion of his outfit. 

On our way to bear bait station 2!

Banana leaf, banana leaf!

Picked 2 gallon bags full of fiddle ferns for my mom, plus we brought her some fresh seaweed and some PWS shrimp. A fair trade for watching our cat for the weekend!

We had a lesson on tide pools - can you see the little fish in the center? 

Nature, the best playground for kids! He could have spent hours here. 

A huge rock slab that for lounging. 

He was great about entertaining himself on the boat. 

We pulled the shrimp pots on Saturday evening and then reset them in another area due to a disappointing catch. I was actually relieved that we moved them into Cochrane Bay - much calmer there with less boat traffic. After we initially set our pots on Friday night near Culross, at least 2 boats came and set next to us. It was ridiculous! We were certain that our lines would get tangled with others but we got lucky.