We woke up this morning excited to brave the Ford’s Terror entrance. Coming up Endicott Arm, we met a couple cruise ships that must have had a very early start. We also saw this crazy crocodile shaped iceberg with an eagle on it.
We arrived at the fabled entrance at 9:30, an hour before the forecast high tide. Another boat also arrived about the same time. We hung out and watched the rapids until they looked pretty relaxed, then after calling out on our VHF radio that we were going in (since the narrow entrance is on a blind corner), we took the plunge. It was actually kind of anticlimactic. It definitely got shallow, but we still had 16 ft under us at the shallowest; and the current got up to maybe 4 mph, but it didn’t push us anywhere we didn’t want to go. There was one other boat crossing over from the other side, but they were the only boat in Ford’s Terror last night and weren’t quite at the entrance yet.
Ford’s Terror is gorgeous. Like being in Milford Sound or Yosemite, but with no one else around. The other boat that came in with us anchored a couple miles away, around a corner at the other end of the bay, so we can’t see or hear them. The bay here is surrounded by steep, 5000-foot high mountains that are rocky and covered with snow and waterfalls.
We’d have liked to get around in the dinghy and explore, but the rain was on and off all day, and when it was on it was pouring. We even had a Williwaw come through and blow us off our anchorage. Hurray for the anchor drag alarm! With weather like that and since we’re staying two nights, we just decided to have a cabin day and watch the view from inside. We made mini pizzas on the bbq with a pizza stone for lunch and had fish tacos with the last of the cod for dinner.
This evening the rain has stopped and the wind has died down, so hopefully the weather will stay nice for tomorrow - Ryan’s birthday!
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