Lagoon Cove to Potts Lagoon

These are floating homes on PottsLagoon a former logging camp. apparently you can just anchor here and build your home. they were pretty rustic.















This is Pott Lagoon looking toward the narrow entrance

This was the most delapidated of the floating homes.

We left Lagoon Cove to Potts Lagoon as my friend Doug said that was a good place to get crabs and shrimp. We anchored near the end of the lagoon but ended up close to a commercial fish boat and that proved to be a mistake. The weather had turned and it was cold and rainy. We spent the night without much sleep because the chain tothe anchor banged, slammed and groaned and the wind howled through the lagoon. My boat swung on the anchor like a pendulum on a clock and each time we would get close to that fish boat. I was
afraid we would get too close and we would have to move the boat.





About 3 am merlyn could go back to the bed for a little sleep as the wind died down.





The rain continued for the next day and finally let up that second night. We got a quiet night and were glad for that. I had not put out any traps due to the cold rain etc.





The morning after that quiet night we decided to leave and go to Echo Bay but when i was using the winch to get the anchor up, it began to strain - a bad sign.





It turned out we had caught the end of a huge cable used by the loggers years ago in this lagoon and with my good luck, i was able to get the anchor to the bow pulpit. There i saw the cable and decided to just grab it and heave it off. I could not budge it as it was very heavy. One end hung over one fluke and the rest over the other and into the water as far as i could see down into the water. Ok, i will hacksaw it off. Yeah, the blade was softer than the stainless steel cable. I did not know it was stainless as it was solid black corrosion on its surface.





But who should arrive to save the day but one of those traditional sail boaters and he said, "tie the cable to your bow pulpit and lower the anchor slowly to me and i will get the cable off. Then you cut the rope hold the cable to the bow." What a brain! I was so dumb. Of course it worked and we were on our way.





I chose to go the route through Beware Passage since that is about 10 miles less than the other choice. the problem is, that route is through narrow passages littereed with rocks aboveand below the water. We could not even see the passage until we were right on it. Thanks to Nobeltec we could see the boat's location relative to the rocks. It was a little nerve racking too.





We got to Echo Bay which was a broken down little marina for sale at least three years and had just sold to Pierre xx who owned a marina near by. He is famous for his pig roasts and had gotten so popular that he bought this place and moved the operation here. In four monthshe re-built the marina to a pretty nice place. Part of the breakwater is one of the pontoons from the I-90 floating bridge that we all so happlily replaced.





We are required to stay for two nights to partake in the pig roast.