Saturday, July 6 Burly Bay

Fred made banana coconut pancakes for breakfast.  Yum.  About noon we had an amazing thing happen.  We heard what sounded like a whale spouting.  Sure enough we look around we saw five orcas!!  There was one very small fluke so we think he was traveling with mom.    They stayed and either played or fed in the rapids coming from Hopetown Passage.  In the early afternoon we saw a line of boats heading to our own private anchorage.  Then we looked again and saw Carlinda in the group.  Turns out is a contingent of the Fidalgo Yacht Club (Anacortes).  We became honorary members when we saw a group in Port McNeill a week ago.  Since the anchorage is small we offered to have one of them raft to us.  The first was Carlinda.  Then we offered for another boat to come up on the other side.  So we had Carlinda and L'Espirit with us.  The other three rafted together nearby (Dolphin, Otava & Quadra).  We hosted happy hour on our boat since is is the biggest.  We had a wonderful time.  This folks are great to be around.  We will probably join the yacht club.
http://fidalgoyachtclub.org/index.html

See the little fin next to the larger Orca?

Carl (new owner of our Aquila) and Dave on L'Espirit

The second raft of three boats