PETERSBURG TO SNUG COVE, GAMBIER BAY
Thursday,
June 11th
Hit the water highway
this morning around 8AM for our 6 hour run over to Snug Cove in Gambier Bay.
Hard to say goodbye to Petersburg, friendly people and beautiful town. The
weather gods were with us today as we entered Frederick Sound and eventually Stephens Passage, just a glassy smooth ride all the way. The other boats had multiple
whale sightings but we were last in the lineup and didn’t see anything! We
arrived in Snug Cove and I did a recon in the whaler as this is one of those
places with a drastic shoal. It goes from 100’ to 7’ in a matter of a few feet,
it’s quite something! The first anchor drop resulted in us being a little too
close to some 20’ water, and with the tide swings of 17’ we decided to move out
a bit to be safe. Because no wind was in the forecast, we all rafted together
off our anchor. We had a minor emergency which was that we forgot to fuel up the
whaler before leaving Petersburg and it was running on fumes! We tow our tender
and the other two boats carry theirs on top of their boats, so ours is more
frequently utilized for exploring or fishing. We are headed out for 4 nights on
anchor before heading to Juneau June 15th so it is critical to be
fueled up! Luckily Greg and Bill had gas cans onboard and John was able to fill
up the whaler with about 15 gallons. Whew, we will make it now. It turned out
to be a beautiful sunny afternoon and we decided to have a happy hour
gathering, which effectively changed everyone’s dinner plans – we were all full
from appetizers! When will we learn? It’s one or the other, not both. We were planning
to just eat leftovers anyway so no harm. A beautiful but uneventful day.
Tomorrow, our exciting and challenging entry into Ford’s Terror. Am slightly “Terror-fied”
as there is said to be a 5 minute window of slack before the current starts running
again, so we need to be all queued up and ready to transit without delay. I
already mentioned in earlier post that we have to navigate between 2 sandbars
and over a charted rock that doesn’t exist, supposedly. The destination is
worth the effort we’ve been told by everyone. Excited to see this place!
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| Anchored in Snug Cove, looking north |
Below is the map of today's journey
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