I love the Bad River. A little tricky to get into but worth it when you are anchored and set. I had not been here for 25 years or so and when we were last here we had sea-doos that made going up and down the chutes to the main river easy and fun. No Sea-Doos this time so we unloaded our old Avon with a 15HP Merc and headed off. Bill and I went the long way around first to get to the chutes that lead up to the river. You go back out towards the main channel and then cut through to another fork of the Bad River. There was a fisherman there and we inquired as to whether there were any special instructions. His answer was short and to the point "keep right", so on every decision we stayed right and made it up to the Devils Gate. The last finger we were going up had a strong current and we barely made headway against the current. We went past the chute with the "no swimming" sign which is the down chute and looked at the next finger which is the up-bound chute. Thinking it sounded like a good idea but might not be, we passed on trying to go up. We would have had to get up a plane and maintain speed through the narrow winding channel and that wasn't going to be easy with two of us in the dingy. We had a nice tour in the calmer waters and didn't see anybody else up or down bound. The passage through Devil's Gate looks worse than it is and we were shot out into the pool where we were anchored.
There were two boats tied against the rock wall on the northeast side of the anchorage and we stopped and talked with the self proclaimed "fishing widows". Both of their husbands were very serious about fishing and the girls were left for most of the day to entertain themselves and do some kayaking. The boys however usually brought home, cleaned and cooked their catch.
The wind was fairly strong and building through the night. We were protected from waves but we were still pulling hard on the anchors with rocks astern. Not much to be done except keep a watch and hope both anchors don't drag.
Dinner was steaks on the BBQ with boat potatoes and broccoli. Boat potatoes are thinly sliced potatoes with onions, butter and some parmesan cheese for me. I thought Sandy was making baked potatoes for Bill and her. But I quickly found out that I was wrong and we shared our two portions with the four of us. Dessert was the remaining peach crisp from the night before and then off to bed.
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| Heading out of the Gun barrel at the Bustards' |
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| I love the way the background reflection works in these pictures |
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| That's the Devils Gate in the background. Doesn't look like much but the water is moving through there |
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| Not much of the eclipse up here, not sure if I missed it but this is what I got |
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