After a night of rollers rocking the boat and water slapping the hull, we were ready to move on from Egg Harbor. We loved the beachcombing and the remoteness and would have liked to hike to neighboring Alikula Bay, if we had stayed another night, but it seems to me that you have to have calm, settled weather both for getting to Egg Harbor AND for comfortable anchoring there. The harbor mouth is just too open to the ocean.
The trip back to protected waters was much calmer than the trip out. Instead of blue skies, we had fog and clouds.
Once we crossed Sumner Strait and tucked in behind Warren Island, sea conditions returned to our preferred protected-waters state. Actually, there were still rollers for a while, but they had a cool, glassy laminar-flow look.
Salt Lake Bay is not really a lake, but it is blocked off by a barrier of small islands, so it almost feels like one. Once we anchored, we went for a dinghy ride around the barrier islands, then Ryan had a nap to test the sleeping conditions for this bay. He gives it two thumbs up!
After dinner, Ryan spotted a black bear at the stream mouth near our anchorage. The dinghy was still down, so I hopped in, motored as close to shore as the shoaling would allow, and watched the bear eating grass through the binoculars. He was big and had a lovely, dark coat. I didn’t bother trying to take pictures—anything would be a letdown after Anan!
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