It was a very hot day today. Not sure what the temperature reached but it was supposed to be about 96 degrees and it sure felt like it!

Darrel, Carl, Waylon, and I went out to check the shrimp pots and ended up with about 45. Better than we have done! We then dropped the crab pots. Carl and Darrel checked them twice more and got one legal crab.

Darrel has been doing fairly well but his feet are starting to get worse and he left his new prescription of pain meds at home! Chemo brain strikes! We are trying to see about getting them either overnighted to Garrison Bay or brought back with the Landes.

I had said I would do a fish fry for dinner for all of us not knowing it was going to be the hottest day of the year! I cooked up the ling cod we caught and froze a week or so ago. Had to do it in the boat on the stove top in a skillet since none of us had brought our fish fryers. I also made an asian cabbage salad and Carl cooked fries in the oven. Ann contributed the sangria.

The boys ended up drinking a lot of that sangria and had a very good time. Not such a great time the next morning, though.

Today we are going to head to Thetis Island and stay one more night with the Bryants. Then Darrel and I will head Southward tomorrow. We might catch up with them again in the San Juans. Hope to see the Landes again there too.

I meant to take pictures of the fish fry last night but was too busy cooking, so just one of the Ladysmith Maritime Society Marina. They have a program here for the recovery of Purple Martins, the largest swallow, that migrates from South America for the summer. Lots of birdhouses on each piling and lots of chirping going on all day. They even have a web cam in one of them showing a baby, that looks full grown.