Patty’s Mom has taken a down turn in health so Patty is flying to Florida to see her from Hoonah for a week or so. Alex with stay with dog’s on boat in Hoonah until she gest back.
Left Haines Harbor around 09:00 bound for Coot Cove anchorage as a stop over before heading to Hoonah. We have heard Hoonah has a nice small town fourth of July celebration so we are going to be there for the 4 th. The leg to Funter Bay at 64 nm is a fairly long one …despite trying to catch tides most of the trip we were at best 7 knots. Slight chop from wind going down Lynn Canal. About 6 miles before the entrance to our bay we saw whale boats watching humpbacks so we did too for a bit. No breaching but I think we saw lunge feeding near the steep shore through binoculars and we saw some backs and tails.
Got into anchorage. Glance at but did not use public float. Took dogs a shore (ouch due to barnacles mollusks), dropped crab traps and I made coconut curry crab soup for dinner with black eyed pea cabbage salad. Got to bed early as tired.
July 1st Coot Cove to Hoonah
Had a easy crossing of icy strait to Hoonah. Arrived mid afternoon with good weather.
We walked around town and saw the carving station and ate at Fisherman’s daughter which has the best food we could find in town. Burgers, halibut and chips etc ……….
The carving shed is nice in that you can go in and talk to the carvers and check out their tools etc.
Then walked out to icy point a cruise ship area with shops in the old cannery(some interesting info at the cannery), restaurant, boat rentals, zip line and outside fireplace for cruise ship people. Dogs swam. The cannery is nicely restored and Icy Point has kept some of the old canning machinery on display in the building with descriptions on how it was used, nice!
The Hoonah Trading Company has a well stocked grocery and HW store with fishing gear for reasonable prices.
July 2nd Hoonah
Guys went charter fishing in AM with an old time hoonah local Billy. They caught two halibut right away but were small so threw back (had to stop fishing if kept). Ended up with no catch. Oh well.
Jeanette and I took a walk on a road (old logging road) with dogs up in to forested hills. Was nice but nothing dramatic. We went for dinghy ride to the store and hardware and also planted crab traps.
July 3rd -11th
PJS went to FL to visit mom. Alex stayed in Hoonah
Alex and J and Albert did fourth of July in Hoonah and then albert and Jeanette left the 5th.
The 4 of July celebration was really cool and started with the event announcer getting every body revved up for the parade. following the parade came the 30 yard dash contest for different kids age groups then sack racing. We took a break and missed the egg toss and water balloon tossing contests so all we saw was a aftermath mess of eggs and balloons on street, sorry we missed it.
