Having cleared customs without incident at Roche Harbor, we decided to try out Reid harbor. Usually one of my favorite places in the islands. I’ve never seen so many boats in Reid Harbor before. We ended up putting down the anchor only about a quarter of the way into the bay, the entire rest of the anchorage was packed. It looked like a small city at night.
We saw smoke coming from the other side of the hill and it was not long before I heard on of our Tolly friends who is a retired fire chief calling on the radio for assistance from the local authorities. There was quite the blaze over near Prevost harbor on the other side of the island.
Jollymon decided to stop by and raft up for the night. We took the dingy’s out later that afternoon for a circumnavigation around Stuart by dingy. Probably one of the best dingy rides of the season. We saw all sorts of wildlife, the remnants of the fire being knocked down by the local fire crews and later I had a pod of fast moving orca whales surface within about arms reach before dissappearing again. Too fast to get a picture of them.
