Ketchikan to Protection Cove May 17 - 19.

It was a great week-long passage. We had only sprinkles in the rain category. Thank you God. The days were sunny, but cold as witnessed by all that snow on the hills.




But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Saturday May 17. Took on fuel and an extra bladder full to make sure we could make the 270+ miles. No fuel would be available via the route we were taking. Topped off the propane bottle, as the oven heat is what keeps us warm on those cold Alaska nights....

We left Ketchikan in a marine layer. and by noon the sun was shining on us and our little Teal. We arrived in Thorne Bay late afternoon. Charming little community.

We tied up at slip 89. A boater heard our calls for the harbor master and told us we probably wouldn't be able to get hold of him cause he doesn't have a hand held and is all over the place. So we were free to take his slip as he was heading into Ketchikan for a few days.

As we were heading to the docks we heard him say, plug into my electricity if you need to. What a nice guy. Thanx Raymond!

We didn't use the electricity, but we did tie up in his slip.

The next morning onto Exchange Cove. First time this season to share an achorage with another boat.






Quiet night in the anchorage.

On to Protection Cove. We saw on the chart, they had floats, so we knew we'd probably tie up at a dock, but much to our surprise as we came around the bend, there was a little fishing village.








We tied up in front of this boat, which was a nostalgic reminder of our friends', Neil and Nancy, former boat.... we looked upon this Harmony as a distant relative to their S/V Harmony.










It was funny to see this big fishing boat, trolling the harbor. But he made quite a few passes inside the cove. With all that water out there, who would think the best fish were in here?


We met two brothers/sailors who live in Wrangel and had come in for a few days.

The following morning they were headed out to accompany some school kids, who were investigating "On Your Knees Cave" in the area. There was a story about it on National Geographics recently. Haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

My notes are back at the boat, and I don't want to get my story out of sequence, so stay tuned for the next episode of our week long trip to Sitka.... and our FAST sail into the final stretch.

luv/jo
(& the captain says hi)

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