May 20-23 - Pender and San Juan Islands (#49)

Monica and I took the boat up to Pender where we joined Jack and Mary at Ainslie Point Cottage for the weekend..We did ssome successful crabbing in Bedwell Harbour, a trip around South Pender and a day trip to Friday Harbor. A full tank took us 105 km...(loaded with either gear or people).

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179 km

May 8th - Saanich Inlet (#48)

Monica and I went for a day of prawning in Saanich inlet, combined with lunch at Bridgeman's Bistro. The prawning was better that the last two times with about 80 prawns total. 4 traps had no prawns...

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29 km

May 5th - Oak Bay and Border Bank (#47)

Martin and I went for a fishing trip on the Oak bay flats. We did a bunch of trolling, dropped a crab trap, and went to the border to try for halibut. The halibut fishing was unsuccessful, the trolling netted us one small chinook, but thew crab trap gave us 7 nice male Dungeness crab!

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53 km.