We departed beautiful, serene Takatz Bay about 0800 this morning bound for Read Island Cove on the mainland, just north of Petersburg, AK; about 64 miles away.
Did I mention that this place is really beautiful?
I just had to include a few more pictures to share with you all.
This guy was about 30 yards (maybe less) from the boat. I had to jam it into neutral so as to not run over him.
Here's the full video too, courtesy of Nicki.
Not long after that, Bill caught his salmon! Dinner, again (see cover photo)!
And here are some more pictures of Chatham Strait and Frederick Sound.
We thank thee, Oh salmon, for you are very tasty and nutritious. Being the bad fisherman that I am, we are done when we catch all we can eat today. We don't catch the limit, nor store frozen fish. We just catch, eat, and catch again.
And here is our intrepid fisherman, Bill, after a hard day's work.
Tonight's salmon was prepared Asian style in a light (5-min marinade) of lemon, sesame oil, light soy, ginger, and garlic. Then simply grilled and basted. Served over rice with green beans. Soy and wasabi on the side.
Tonight's odd wine paring was a Long Cellars Carmenere. Not a perfect paring, but we suffered through and made it work!
At low tide, the shore gets mighty close... That rock outcropping is only 25 yards away! And we've got 14' under the keel. We should be good.
We were treated to a lovely sunset tonight. 2005 (10:05 pm) ish...
And what we did or didn't do about it... Kabola furnace ship hot water loop, inop. · We never did find the fix for this. Costica (Kabola genius) was aboard to help diagnose while we were still in Anacortes. Windlass · Turned out to be the breaker (Doh!). Just closed the breaker and voi-la! It worked. Thrusters (bow & stern). When we moved to Lithium batteries and installed new chargers, we forgot to account for the AGMs on the thrusters, so they had no chargers. · Installed AC-DC chargers (bow and stern) that run off the inverter. Not ideal, but it was expeditious. Woody came to Campbell River and brought two chargers and installed them – Thanks, Woody. Propane system for the gas cooktop. We had an intermittent very low flame to no flame if multiple burners were on....
We are experimenting with Blogger. Please be patient and we welcome all well-intentioned advice. This morning at 0742, we departed Prince Rupert, BC (see pic on right) for Brundige Inlet, BC, but after a few hours of motoring NNW, the weather was so favorable in Dixon Entrance that we decided to continue on to Foggy Bay, Alaska. We cleared US Customs while underway via CBPRoam without any issues. We snaked into the inner bay and dropped the hook at 1422. And Foggy Bay is aptly named; visibility is about 1/2 mile as verified by radar. Foggy Bay has a super tight tricky entrance to the inner bay. Beware the known uncharted rock just south of the islet as you enter the inner channel (I added it to our charts, see pic below). After a scary bit of steering to avoid what I thought were rocky shoals along the east side of the west islands, we are at last anchored in the inner bay; 35’ deep with 115’ of chain out; safe and snug. The “rocky shoals”...
Looks amazing!!! Especially since we are here packing boxes. Thanks for the mental vacation!
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