This morning dawned a bit differently than most. It wasn't raining! But it was still foggy and overcast. Hey, 1 out of 3 up here isn't bad!!!
A nice breakfast on the boat and a leisurely departure at 1052. Only 22 miles to Petersburg; we pulled in at 1402 (2:02pm). But again, the same looking fishing boat was at the marina entrance - fishing. Fishing in the middle of the entrance to the marina! I gave him room and went way around him. As I was maneuvering into the marina entrance from the side, this guy turned and shot right in front of me. I had to slam the boat into reverse to not hit him. What is it with these small-boat-fishermen up here? Two jerks in two days! I thought about blasting my horn 5 times (proper danger signal), but that seemed overly aggressive on my part, though it was the proper maritime thing to do in this situation.
Petersburg is a fishing town of about 3,367 people, 1,100 of them are employees of the three seafood canneries, Trident, Icicle Seafoods, and Tonka. Petersburg ranks #20 nationally by volume of seafood processed. If you don't like the smell of fish processing, you might have a challenge here. At our slip in the North Harbor we are surrounded by these canneries.
Petersburg gets 110 inches of rain per year, mostly in September and October. The locals throughout our trip have complained that this year is significantly wetter and colder than normal. We will see what happens next year when we return.
Anyway, off to a little Mexican restaurant that Kippy found. Gotta lunch. El Zarape is excellent and would pass muster in any town in the lower 48. They even had real Mexican music playing!
I gave them a 5-star rating/review in Yelp. Just doing my part to help.
We had a nice hike through town.
This can is actually a public trash bins. All of the downtown bins we saw were painted to represent one of the present or past caning companies' labels. There are twelve such bins around town. They look great.
Many buildings had colorful murals on their walls, each depicting some different aspect of the town's history.
Here's a tug pulling a barge through the narrow channel at Peterburg's waterfront. If you look closely at the picture, you can see trailers, motorhomes, and busses atop the container boxes.
Back at the boat, we came across another Selene at the docks, a few slips from ours. "Melissa Lynn" is a Selene 53 owned by Russ and Missie Low. It is the very first production hull of the Selene 53. We got together on their boat and chatted, toured, and then had them over to our boat and chatted and toured some more. New friends. How cool is that?
Still dealing with full bellies of Mex food, we elected for a simple salad & soup dinner. Note in the picture, that the sun is shining in the windows of the boat! Late this afternoon, the sun came out for a bit and now the fog is back.
In a prior post, "Goin' South from the North" published on 7/22/2024, I'd discussed running into a fishing fleet of some sort. Here are two visual pictures that were up at the Harbormaster's office. It would have been rather helpful to have had this back then. As suspected, I can now confirm that those were Gillnetters.
Here is a picture off the back deck of our boat just as the fog was starting to form again as mist above the water.
Good Night.
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