Alaska 2021 – August 19- August 23, 2021
We left Klemtu on the 19th and headed for
Shearwater where we were able to spend a night at the dock and go out to
dinner! The Fisherman’s Bar and Grill was open and we had a great
dinner that night of Fish and Chips and we
were able to pick up a few groceries at the store for our journey south. The 19th ended up being our last
night with Dave and Jane on Bidarka.
They are ready to go home so they decided to leave on the morning of the
20th and head for home. We decided that we would rather take our time than race
ahead so we said goodbye. It has been a
great summer cruising with them in Alaska.
On the 20th we headed to Kisameet Bay. It was a beautiful sunny day and we explored
the bay. It is an Indian Reserve and someone is building some kind of operation
there. There is a floating dock, a ramp
and stair system up to an area where they have installed some building
structures. There is also a covered pit of some kind. The area has been surveyed and there is a lot
of material for fencing, water retention, a satellite dish, etc . Perhaps a mining operation of some
kind?
On the other side of the bay was a river that leads to a lake. Our hope was to find a trail but the one we found was very difficult along some survey tape so Liz and I decided to stay on the beach and let Steve and Glen explore. They made it to the lake and got pictures of a waterfall coming out of the lake where Salmon were making their way up to their spawning area. As muddy and scratched up as the boys came back I am glad we stayed and enjoyed the sun on the beach! If you look closely at the waterfall picture at the top downed tree that is laying down over the water - halfway down the 2nd branch (right side of branch), you can see a Salmon jumping to get up the waterfalls! We followed up our beach tour with dinner outside on Magic Moment deck. It is hard to believe that it is the first time we have been able to eat outside this summer and it was fantastic!
We went to Millbrook Cove in Smith Sound on the 21st and then crossed Cape Caution on Sunday the 22nd. We anchored in Skull Cove on the south side of Bramham Island, south of Nakwakto Rapids. It is a beautiful area that we have always passed by on our way North so our plan is to spend the day exploring this new area- we went to the rapids the morning of the 23 and it is hard to describe so I have included three pictures. The first two pictures are Nakwakto Rapids which are among the fastest in the world – they can run up to 16 knots of the ebb and 14 on the flood and we went on the ebb (water going out) when they were running about 11 knots and what an amazing site it was. There are six inlets in Seymour Inlet past the rapids and that is why the rapids run so fast – all that water has to come in and out each day with the tide changes so it is a huge amount of moving water going thru Nakwakto. We also went out Slingsby channel where the water meets the Queen Charlotte Strait and the third picture shows the standing wave to the entrance caused by the water movement. I have videos that are amazing but to large to share here.
We left Skull Cove headed for Blunden Harbor where we hope
to meet up with Willard and Diane Thomas on Sea Life for a crossover day before
Steve and I head south. The others are going to spend some time playing in this
area before also heading south. We saw Whales on the way to Skull Cove.
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