It will be a shorter post today. We woke this morning to another beautiful day in Misty Fiords. It was hard to say good-bye, but we have other places to see and need to keep making progress north to arrive in Juneau in time for our June 21 flight to Anchorage.
The trip to Klu Bay was nice; but after yesterday, little of today’s scenery seemed worthy of immortalizing on film (on digital memory?). Behm Canal was like a mill pond, then once we got up to Bell Island, the wind kicked up. To spice things up, Ryan wanted to try Anchor Passage, a narrow channel on the east side of Bell Island with a very shallow entrance on the north end. It was a little hair-raising, but only because we no longer trusted the charts - the depth on the sounder never got shallower than 12 feet. Bell Arm, on the north side of Bell Island, was a bit uncomfortable with the chop, but we did see two brown bears running into the woods as we passed by.
Klu Bay is a pleasant little bay that we are sharing with one other boat. Anchoring was again a little challenging, with the sea floor rising quickly from 95 feet to very shallow depths. But Ryan expertly got us parked, and we spent some time exploring with the dinghy.
It was another sunny afternoon, and a breeze kept it from feeling too hot. The shorts that I unpacked for the first time yesterday stayed put away. We are enjoying getting some charge now from the solar panels, which helps keep us in power for all the modern conveniences on the boat.
You have to pass through Shrimp Bay to get to Klu Bay, so it seemed like destiny that we drop our pot there on our way in this afternoon. Also, we wanted to try out the new new spool for the shrimp line that Ryan had acquired in Ketchikan. Up to this point we have mostly been spooling the line into a tidy pile on the back deck when we reel in the shrimp pot, but that wasn’t a satisfactory solution. Ryan put together a spool-holder from PVC pipe, screwed a handle onto the repurposed spool, and away we went.
It worked pretty well, both launching and retrieving. Too bad we still can’t seem to catch any shrimp.
If you look behind the pot puller, you can see a waterfall. It’s actually one of two torrential waterfalls right next to each other, draining the same lake (Lake Orchard). We had meant to boat over to them after we pulled up the pot, but our disappointment at the shrimp harvest made us forget. We’ll have to wait till tomorrow to look at them more closely on the way out.
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