Wednesday, July 11 Khutze Inlet

We awaken to a mostly sunny day with white puffy clouds.  That’s the good news.  However, big, ugly, biting flies have arrived.  Fred was trying to do some work on the dinghy and replace the bilge pump.  Multiple complications occurred and these flies are making us all crazy.  It is impossible to sit out on the deck.  Thank goodness we have screens on the windows!  Fred went out to pick up the crab traps and we had a total of seven.  We are allowed to keep six if they are males and of a large enough size.  We had six keepers and Fred did the cleaning (we can’t put live crabs in boiling water).  For the first time I’ve been bitten by a crab!  I was helping Fred with the trap and thought I was being scratched by the metal trap until I looked down and one of the crabs had a bit of my ankle in his claw. He got a little chunk of me but we got the last laugh...