We left Port McNeill with plans to travel to an anchorage we’ve been to before called Mound Island. It’s a pretty spot with an ancient clam midden beach and little built up hills around the beach that used to an old First Nations village site.
Along the the we decide to try out the Pearce Islands instead. It’s in a little provincial park reserve – Cormorant Channel Marine Park. We been hearing about how pretty this anchorage from fellow boaters for years. It is small and it was often full of boat we thought. We went in just before lunch. It is larger of a spot than I expected. And we dropped the anchor. And the wind blew us around in circles for a couple of hours. Maybe an hour and a half. It was blowing a gale in there! And there with quite the current as well. Lily was not impressed! So we decided we’d pull up anchor and head of to Mound Island instead!
We took the skiff down and took a little spin about the anchorage. We did not go to shore and walk around the mounds. We did walk around the beach the first year we came up here in 2014. We had Jenny with us.
There was one other boat in the anchorage with us. A small boat from the Port McNeill area with a couple that were out for the night with their 6 year old grandson. We sure want to take Key with us! He’s not yet four. I think Key is as big as the little 6 year old boy. He was having fun pulling the crab pots with his Grandad. We were jealous!
We had a lovely evening. No wind! We left the next morning to head back to Minstrel Island to try to get prawns – as the last time was a bit of a failure. We had a spot we knew from previous trips to put the prawn pots.
Phoenix Hunter 1985 