July 8, 2017

We listened to the radio in the morning and found out that the wind is coming up a bit tomorrow, so we decided to go further than anticipated and all the way into Peril Straight today. And so we ended up leaving earlier than Sleighride's 8:00am request, we left around 7:15 or so. Talking to Scott and Judy, they were going to leave early right after us as well.

Another long day but the weather was good and we had a cell signal for the majority of it which was nice. We did see some humpbacks in Northern Chatham Straight, and actually saw a group bubble feeding! (We might have a distant photo proof shot). It was a long way up and over and down again. Saw a few fishboats a long the way, but no other pleasure boats - everyone seemed to be headed south. It's certainly been a case of "what do they all know that we don't"!

Baby Bear cove is a bit of a path to get into, but was nice and protected when we got there. After sprinkling all day, there was blue sky and the sun came out! So we just sat on the flybridge to soak up the rays. Did some reading and maybe nodded off a bit enjoying the warmth.

Made a plan for going through the narrows the next day. Although it's "preferable" to go through at high slack, we decided to go through them at low slack so that we weren't coming into Sitka in the afternoon. That meant up at 5:00am and raising the anchor around 5:20. But this also meant leaving Baby Bear Cove at what was possibly a minus tide. The chart here is not that detailed and it shows that we came in through some shallow water which wasn't actually that shallow. But we hopped into the dingy and went over so the shallow spots with our dingy depth sounder and verified that there *was* actually lot's of water to leave in. Bak to Spellbound for dinner and an early night.