Rain, rain, and more rain. We used today to reposition closer to Fiordland Recreation Area.
With it being so wet outside, I spent more time than usual cooking today. I reinvented some leftovers for lunch - pictured below, the last of our butternut squash soup and some quesadillas from remnants of last night’s taco Tuesday. This evening I actually cooked from scratch. Much of what we’ve been eating so far has been food I pre-prepared to some extent before the trip.
Some of you may be interested in how we provisioned for such a long trip. Before we left Washington, I made things like bolognese sauce, pork carnitas, kheema curry, Korean gochujang pork, and even baked a (perhaps greedy) number of cookies and brownies. Also we packaged up homemade soup, (deboned) rotisserie chicken, raw beef and chicken, sausage, and hamburger patties. Everything got vacuum packed into appropriate portion sizes and placed in our Dometic chest freezer, which we stashed under the main cabin floor. It was packed solid when we left. Canadian customs limits you to 20 kg (44 lb) of meat you can bring in from the US and we probably came close to the limit between my (frozen) raw and prepared meats. All that preparation makes things a lot easier in a few ways: we can be thoughtful about what we bring; we pay less since we can buy from stores we know at home; we can cook things ahead that are harder or impossible to cook in our boat kitchen; and it is just more relaxing to heat up a nice meal rather than gathering a bunch of raw ingredients ingredients, chopping, cooking, etc. - this is a holiday, after all! We obviously had to buy all our fresh fruits and vegetables once we got into Canada, since customs never likes to see those crossing the border. Every time we stop for fuel, we also pick up milk and any other fresh goods we need. These all go into the galley refrigerator. We expect eventually to start catching fish and shrimp, refilling the freezer as room opens up. When things warm up, we might also try growing some herbs and greens in a clear plastic box on our boat deck, like a small green house.
Anyway, back to the trip report. When we arrived in Rescue Bay, we had the place to ourselves and plonked the anchor down in 50 ft of water, right in the middle of the bay. It’s lovely, even in the rain. The weather is supposed to improve tomorrow, so perhaps we’ll also get some longer views then.
Now it’s time to come clean. I promised you a report on last night’s shrimp pot, but sadly we were skunked this morning - unless you count the starfish that crawled into the trap. I think we need to try different bait. We plan to do some fishing in Fiordland in the coming days, so hopefully we’ll have some smelly fish carcasses with which to tempt the fussy little crustaceans in future pot drops.
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