I forgot to mention yesterday that they had a rubber ducky race yesterday at 4pm. Pierre & Tova had asked people to wear yellow &/or dress up. We watched from the boat - there were a lot of ducks in the water & lots of people participating. A fellow that we met at Sullivan Bay (we sat with them at dinner there) flew a drone from his boat with an iPad & it took lots of pictures. His boat is named Djeneba & has an elephant painted on it - it's 63' long & they have lots of people flying in & out to visit them. His grandson won the race & got $370 as his prize! He's going to give copies of the pictures to Tova so hopefully there will be some pictures on their website. There was no current going in the back where they did the race so Pierre took his fishing boat back there trying to create some waves. Before that the ducks really weren't moving much. It was fun to watch.
We left Echo Bay at 9:40. It was very foggy part of the way, but finally cleared up. We hit a log that thumped the boat twice & Rod saw it in our wake. At that point it was too foggy to see it. We're seeing lots of traps - the Captain thinks they are probably for prawns as the water is pretty deep, but could be for crab as well.
We got to Potts Lagoon about noon & it was already 70'. Some friends of ours from SYC are here too - Gary & Judy Ball on Voyageur - also a Grand Banks, 36'. Gary does the BC Boaters net (ham radio) too. We've run into them a number of times on this trip & heard last night that they were coming here as well. We've invited them to come to our boat for cocktails. We thought we might be able to sit on the flybridge (we've only been able to do that once so far) but the temperature is down to 66' & the wind has picked up so we'll be inside.
Eventually it started raining & rained most of the night.
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