July 25th Tracy Arm Cove to Cannery cove
Super smooth passage across and southward in Stephen’s passage to Fredick sound. Near bottom of Stephen’s passage where meets with Frederic sound MANY MANY Whales. We stopped engines and floated for an hour. Whale all around us! No breaching. One almost hit the boat and scared the heck out of us as big boil when he quickly avoided us. Cool to hear all the blows.
Moved on to Cannery Cove to anchor over night before proceeding to Kake. Total rain! Could not really see the shore much due to rain…never saw bear (Grand QTR boat friends had seen bear at tracy arm and a cannery cove but us nada). Marcia made white chili for dinner and I added salad and corn bread. Guys did crab traps and shrimp traps. Got two crab maybe? No Shrimp.
July 26th Cannery Cove to Kake (pronounced “cake”)
Got to Kake early as short trip. Had Dahl’s porpoises bow surf for a good several minutes on the way into the bay. The marina is past the town proper where you pass the public dock. Thought of staying at the public dock but run down and only looked suitable for a possible dinghy run later.
Marina is far from “town”. Town has population of 500. We settled in to a slip (no power) and took a short walk to shore.
Then jumped into dinghy and went to the free public dock (not in good repair and shallow) and walked “town”.
Saw liquor store, church and residences…some nice house but most kind of shabby. Alex and I walked back to boat and Marcia and Gary took dinghy back. Cake has a very nicely stocked general store where we stopped and got a toaster and few items. For the general store From the marina you take a left at marina office and walk down the road along the water about 1/2 mile to the store on the right hand side.
Guys went out fishing that evening. Beautify evening with some some and nice flat water. They got two rock fish (one of which impaled Alex) but no halibut. Oh well they had a nice time. I had rubbed pork tenderloins to eat but they got back so late we had hot dogs and cabbage salad.