Alexander Inlet to Khutze May 19th
to May 20th,
We left Alexander
Inlet about 11:00 for our cruise to Khutze.
We will be cruising for about 4 hours today. It is a beautiful sunny day, clear but cool
although we are cruising from the top today in the sunshine. We are in the Tomie channel for about 24nm
which is bordered on both sides by high hills. Tom and Chris were cruising just
off the shore In over 300 feet of water so there are steep hills on either side ( 1600 – 3300
Ft). Yesterday we saw a momma humpback whale and baby so we are on the lookout
today also.
We have seen lots
of waterfalls today – the snow up high is melting and the water is pouring out
of the hills. We have also seen
abandoned pulp mills from the 1930’s on the channels sides. We arrived in the Khutze Inlet and for the
first time this trip we are anchoring in a bay with another boat! The inlet is
about 4 miles long. At the head of the
inlet is a river that we decided to go up in our dinghy. We made it about ¾ miles before we were down
to a foot of water and had to turn back.
It had a strong current and the river valley was beautiful. The book said we could go on a 3 mile walk up
the river valley to an old abandoned gold mine but it was late in the day when
we got there so maybe next time!
We had a fresh
seafood paella feast on Reflections and plan on leaving tomorrow for Bishop Bay
where there is a hot springs. Tomorrow
will be a homemade Chowder using the Goeduck we were given by some fishermen in
one of the bays.
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