Hooping harbour Paradise

Beautiful day, and enough time to explore some out of the mini fjords. On the est of the headlandFirst stop Hooping harbour. A hidden entrance and a hidden gem. It’s a deep fjord, not that big,but looks like the day the glacier left, apart from a couple of fishing cabins. On the right a pristine river enters full of trout and salmon and Im guessing very attractive to bears in the season. There are several whales cruising and fishing in the middle often very near to us. We notice we are parting a cloud of Mackerel the size of 2 football pitches as we nearer the head of the bay. It’s still deep and our anchor wont work in this sandy bottomed terminal moraine. Luckily for us there’s a wrotten old rope attached to a 200 ton block we can put our trust in (apparently the SAR boat sometimes uses it). We could have reached over and grabbed the mackerel. But that would be like competing with the otters and seals which fill this end of the bay. So one drop with the feathers fills the breakfast pan and some sizzling butter and pepper does the trick. A sunny a day and an explore on shore before lunch. It feels like a mini u touched paradise. An afternoon plan is hatched to take the Dinghy 2 miles up fjord to explore and maybe fish up the river. Its all to good to be true.Read more