| Prideaux Haven - As you enter Prideaux Haven, there are two submerged reefs on either side of the boat and a large rock to port (left), so go real slow and stay in mid-channel. Prideaux Haven is a large tree-lined anchorage capable of accomodating several larger boats as well as many smaller boats. It was very hot (100F - 37C) the entire time we were there and no breeze, which brought-out millions of jellyfish almost everywhere. There were so many, that they obsecured the bottom from view, which spoiled the swimming for us. |
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| Prideaux Haven harbor entrance to right | Channel entrance |
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| Rock to port | Prideaux Haven harbor looking SW |
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| Prideaux Haven harbor looking E | Prideaux Haven harbor looking NE |
Outside Prideaux Haven in the deep channel, the prawning was terrific!!! We went prawning for the first time and used the trap that Tugboat Larry sold us. We put our trap down 300' twice a day - 12 hours apart, and most times came up with a hundred or more medium-sized prawns. Prawns look like shrimp but are of a different species. The prawn (a vegetarian) has a more overall uniform color, whereas the shrimp (a carnavor) has different colors on its head. Both taste sweet and meaty, and whether you sauté them in a pan with extra virgin olive oil, butter, garlic and herbs, or roast them on the barbeque grill perhaps with your favorite sauce, they taste great. Just ask Zeus our cat, who tried them for the first time and now loves! We put several vacuum-sealed bags of cleaned but uncooked prawns in our freezer for later. |
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| Yellow float marking our rawn trap 300' below | Typical catch of prawns |
| Melanie Cove - In the back of the Prideaux Haven harbour is the opening to Melanie Cove, a smaller tree-lined cove for fewer boats. We anchored in the middle of the cove in 25' of water. They were a few boats that anchored close to shore and used a "shore-tie" (a long polyethylene rope run from the stern of the boat to the shore, around a tree or rock, then back out to the boat). This keeps the boats from swinging into their neighbor's boat, and makes room for more boats when it's crowded. Boats anchored-out in the middle like ours, swung freely, within reason.
Dingying in Melanie cove we saw this gorgeous Bald Eagle fishing. |
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| Melanie Cove entrance from Prideaux Haven | Melanie Cove looking NE |
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| Just Playin in Melanie Cove | The jellyfish |
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| The eagle | |
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| Eagle (center) grabbing fish (hard to see) |
| Laura Cove - Out and around from Prideaux Haven and Melanie Cove, is Laura Cove, a much smaller cove, also tree-lined. The entrance is narrower and has some rocks to watch-out for. We took the dingy there for a look see. |
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| Laura Cove entrance | |
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| Laura Cove looking SW | Laura Cove looking NE |
