We left Friday Harbor and headed for Shaw Island to a place called Indian Cove. We set the crab pots and in short order landed a large Red Rock crab and a good sized Dungeness crab. This location was great and we enjoyed a nice sand beach with forts and a solid anchorage with a nice level sandy bottom. There was surprisingly little current in the cove and we had a nice gentle breeze from the south that kept us pointed into the wind.
I will definitely return to this amazing place. If you visit this location I would recommend you check the weather the fetch to the south is rather long and I imagine it could be a bit bumpy if there was any weather from the South. The nice thing is if it was to get rough you could easily head off to Blind Bay for a quiet anchorage in that case.
View from anchorage looking south with the Olympics off in the distance.
First and only crab feast on the journey. On the way home we caught three additional crabs at Spencer Spit but decided to let them return to nature.
There's a ferry in there somewhere. I'm glad we were out of the traffic lanes and at anchor since this guy was still going fast and sticking to his schedule.
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