Wednesday, July 5, 2023 Deadbolt Island

I made a big mistake last night by opening the door to step outside to see if my solar anchor light was on. It was, so all good there. But mosquitos must have been queued outside the door and they rushed in for the attack. We killed about a dozen over the next 15 minutes or so. They were big and mean, and their friends were waiting outside on our window screens for another error by this captain. We are fortunate our electronic bug zappers finally got delivered in Port Huron.

It was a totally quiet and beautiful evening. No motion or noise whatsoever. It does appear a big change is coming. There is a high wind warning in effect, and rain and storms are likely, starting this afternoon and evening and tomorrow. Our next stop is planned to be Killarney where we hope to meet up for dinner with the Zumpkers from VYC who have a cottage there.

The first order of business today was to gather all my fishing equipment. It's in at least 3 different areas. I'll had to empty my 5 gallon wash bucket hoping we'll need it to hold all of our fish. After Peter had his extreme cappuccino, topped with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, off we went.

Within 10 minutes Peter had hooked a nice Northern Pike. At the time we did not know it would be the only fish of the day, but it was. Check out this grin. I did not get any fish, just a couple of little bites on the tail of my minnow lure. We jointly cleaned the fish on Annie's swim platform, then cooked it  seasoned with old bay spice on Annie's grill. It was tasty but had a lot of bones so we had to eat very, very carefully. 

Storms are possible for the next day and a half, and rain is likely. Marianna wanted to go to a dock in  Killarney so Voyager left about 3:00 PM. We are staying put. I did let out 20' more of anchor chain. I ran the generator for 1/2 an hour to heat water for dishes and made several batches of ice while doing that. 

Happy hour was on top of the V-berth on the bow. We decided we would just have snacks for dinner, so we sat out and ate Fritos and pretzels with bar cheese and white Queso cheese. Delicious if not nutritious. We had our little wine jug up with us too. It was mostly cloudy and breezy so it was very nice to sit out.

I ran the generator before turning to get the batteries to 84% charge. Rain is forecast for tonight. I've already got the doors closed to prevent the mosquito invasion from last night recurring.