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Have you ever put all of your camping and fishing gear on your boat, motored or sailed across the water and spent a few days camping on an island? Boat-in camping is one of the most awesome Pacific Northwest adventures. In this video we take you through our boat-in camping trip to Jones Island on the west side of the beautiful San Juan Islands. During this trip, we camped, fished, shrimped and crabbed. Our dog Felix went a little nuts for the crab and shrimp. Enjoy!
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Alright so we're about ready to go launch the boat at Washington Park here
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because it's time to go go camping go shrimping we're gonna camp at Jones Island and we got some
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gear to do some halibut fishing some coho fishing shrimping crabbing should be a good trip yeah
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just underway here leaving Washington Park headed across Rosario into the islands we're
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We're going to be islanders for a couple days here. Going through the islands
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On our way to Jones Island. Have the family packed in, all the gear loaded down
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Oh yeah, island life. BMW does life, man. Playing with the tide pools You guys like doing that last year
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We're way over there on the other side We got the tent staked down and this Kodiak canvas tent is pretty sweet
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Just got to lay it flat and put all the stakes down and then you can put the main bars through
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the middle here. We've kind of had a couple unfortunate surprises for us here on Jones Island
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the water system will be shut down starting September 9th due to well running dry
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Please conserve. Thank you. It is September 10th, so the water is shut down
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We did bring some gallon jugs and we can go to Deer Harbor and restock and resupply
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you know, get coffee and hot food and stuff like that, because there's also a burn ban
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I know, the state's on fire. It makes sense that you'd put a burn ban over here too
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because, I mean, all the fire resources, you know, are occupied with, you know
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eastern Washington, western Washington. Shoot, when I left, there was a fire like four miles from my house
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So, yeah, priorities, but we were hoping to cook some steaks over a fire tonight
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That's not going to happen. It's always nice to sit around the fire too when you're camping
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But here's the view from the cove on the north side of Jones Island
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It's pretty sweet. Pretty sweet. Million dollar view. Alright, we got our first shrimp pot down just off of Jones Island here
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So hopefully we have some luck We got two more to drop And we be checking in about 45 minutes to an hour John Island over there in the distance
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Hey, what you doing in the morning? You're trying to get this
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All this juicy shrimp? What are you trying to do? You don't want the..
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You better eat that tail. Are you serious? You don't want to eat the tail
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You made us waste the shrimp. It took off the tail. No, the tail
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He's not eating it. That's awful. What do you think, Felix
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Don't get your little tongue too close, dog. You're not gonna have that thing back
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So bad, he's ready to get his nose right in there. Critter
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He has no sense at all. None. Our dog has no sense
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This one might be a... Maybe he should talk to our friend, Steve. Right
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A closer in shrimp spot would be better We pulled up a pot of over a hundred and this one looks to be close to that again
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So maybe 80, 10, 580. So we're halfway to our four person limit
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And we're throwing back these though. These are the females. You can see they got all these eggs in them
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And when you're shrimping later in the year, you're more likely to encounter the females and so you want to toss them back
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It's night number two on Jones Island. Use my anchor buddy system
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I'm hoping when tomorrow morning's low tide, I'm hoping I'll be off the beach, but it's
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possible I'll be on the beach and then I can't go fishing until more tide comes in
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And then it'll be time to leave. That'll be kind of a bummer
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But, hoping that it'll work out. I'm pretty far off the beach here
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We're kind of at high tide right now though. You can kind of see my boat out there
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I got two anchor buddies tied together. and a line on my stern
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Prefer to be bow out, facing out, that way, you know, any kind of wakes or anything like that
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or, you know, won't risk sinking my boat, but hoping this is gonna work out
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We'll see. We'll see you tomorrow. Wow, this whole area has changed so much
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In about 24 hours the wind changed. It brought the smoke in
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What went from just this beautiful kind of serene location, million dollar view, it's just all socked in with smoke
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This is a bit much. We're getting out of here now. We're packing up and packing up everything
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