All The Prawns You Can Eat

Lagoon Cove is one of my very favourite destination marinas. Kent, Rick, Paulette & I plan to anchor most nights. Not only is the price right, but we enjoy the quiet, mother nature and the option to run our generators any time of day or evening.

But, when it’s time to fuel up, water up, meet others for a ‘happy hour’ of hors d’oeuvres and entertainment, then Lagoon Cove is an awesome place to be.

Kent radioed ahead to Bill, the owner, to ask if he had moorage space for our two boats and he warmly greeted us with the news he had ‘lots of room’. Sure enough we arrived to find Bill and 3 other people waiting to take our lines to help us tie, and the two most perfect spots, at the end of the long dock, one on each side - so we can talk out our pilot house doors. Electricity is always very important and Kent struggled to get ours working, but finally had to ask Bill for some direction as it was NOT working. Bill sorted it out quickly!

I spent the afternoon fishing on the dock with Tanya from ‘Lori Girl’, catching shiners for bait. She taught me about hooking up and baiting for halibut fishing using a sting zelda, a huge brightly coloured squid which had the biggest treble hook I’d ever seen, a shiner on one hook and a piece of octopus as bait on the another hook. Unfortunately all we caught were huge sunfish and starfish, but I learned about bouncing the lure on the bottom to attract the halibut. Tanya caught a 65 pound halibut recently - but not off the dock! We enjoyed relaxing, talking and sitting and catching a number of shiners.

Anyway, I’m ready to try halibut fishing. I bought a lure and it better work… it was just over $26.00! I hope Paulette likes cooking halibut!

Rick and Paulette took 4 of my shiners to use as bait and went fishing in their dinghy, after Rick set out his crab traps in the bay, and Kent took the remainder of the shiners and went in our dinghy. R & P were back an hour and a half later with only a sole which they are saving as bait for the crab pot and Kent threw back the only rockcod he caught. Luckily I had the left-over ribs cut into small pieces and heated, ready to take to the wonderful ‘happy hour’ at the deck. Bill had a huge tray of fresh prawns ready for us, and other boaters brought various appetizers. We took our plates, napkins, drinks and appetites and enjoyed meeting and talking the fairly large group. Once the food was gone, Bill stood up to speak about the ‘bear bone’ he had in his hand. He’s a storyteller and has perfected the story with much humour, wittiness and his (and his wife’s) obvious hospitality and love of people. I won’t relate the story (I should have videoed it) as it would lose too much in retelling, you’ll just have to spend an evening at Lagoon Cove Resort! They cook prawns EVERY evening for their guests!

I took a few photos to show the decor, the rustic buildings and even a carved bear (with a ham who wanted to be part of a ‘totem’). Around 6 pm the crowd dispersed back to their boats to cook dinner and the rain started pouring. Perfect timing…

It was my turn to make dinner and we had ground moose taco salad, watched the rain fall, the wildlife critters playing in the water behind the boats and talked and planned for the next days power boating adventures in Beautiful BC.