Nugent Sound

We decided to leave the Belize Inlet area and head up Nugent Sound for a night. First up to pick up the prawn pots. Much to Jim’s dismay we did not get a single prawn. Not One!

Jim was pretty unhappy but we still had a couple of avocados and some cherry tomatoes so I was looking forward to shrimp salad for dinner!

While we were at anchor in Strachan Bay we discovered that both the Webasto – our little furnace that provide heat and hot water and our generator- which provides heat, hot water and charges the batteries are not working. Both seemed to have gone on the fritz within a few hours of each other. This will mean some plans will have to change. But at this point we are going to continue with our trip up Seymour Inlet.

As we motor along up Nugent Sound it is a pretty nice day with no wind or rain and the scenery is beautiful.

According to “Cruising the Secret Coast” by Jennifer and James Hamilton there is a small logging dock at the head of Nugent Sound and the entrance to Schwartzenberg Lagoon. They anchored up at the head close to the lagoon entry. We were not going to anchor up there. We found a little anchorage we quite liked on our way up and we’re going to go back to Nugent Cove for the night.

As we motored in we found what is left of the logging dock.

I thought that was a good photo of the water coming out of Schwartzenberg Lagoon. The lagoon can be seen in the back with the water rushing out through the small opening. It is very shallow and access to the lagoon is by skiff only at high water slack. It is quite a large lagoon. I wonder what is the ration of fresh water to sea water in theses inlets.

We monitored back to Nugent Cove to spend the night. It was a lovely little spot tucked behind a couple of islands.

Jim boiled and peeled the humpback shrimp. Which he thought was a lot of work for one meal. I offered to help but I was a little late on the draw.

There was just over 100 shrimp. They weighed out to just under 500 gram. We know because we have a small scale on the boat. I thought it might be too much for one meal. But nope – we ate them all!

Jim took a few artistic photos of the shrimp salad and decided it was really tasty and worth all that work. Except he’d still rather they were prawns.

The next day the wind came up and we decided to stay put instead of going into Seymour Inlet which is very large and open and probably much windier. We saw gusts as high as 28 knots where we were anchored.

We had a quiet day and I finally got out my Dear Jane quilt project and did a little stitching.