June 29, 2017

We wanted to wait until closer to slack to leave Petersburg, so we had some time in the morning. We headed back up to Java Hus to have a coffee and abuse their WiFi. Between the 2 of us, we downloaded the whole next season of "Orange is the New Black". There was an "American Cruise Lines" cruise ship in town so there were a lot of people around. We spoke to one woman and she said it carried 88 passengers. Apparently you can notice 88 extra people in Petersburg. We also had a rather talkative local tell us his life story. He used to fish full time until he retired, which is a good thing because now there are no more fish. It's the whales. Now that there are so many whales around, they are eating the fry and so there are no fish coming back to fish. Need to start hunting humpback whales again he says.

We of course had "The B" with us, so sat outside. I think it was too soon for my cold to sit outside for awhile and I started feeling quite lousy. Back to the boat and we headed out around 11:45. Nice crossing over to Thomas Bay. Holy crap what a huge Bay. We cruised up to the northern section and took a look at Baird Glacier, and into Scenery Cove which was only somewhat scenic - it had an abandoned catamaran anchored in it, and you couldn't really see much. So back down to the south end where we had planned to anchor for the night. A small cruise ship boat was coming in as we passed the entrance, and it could have been the ACL boat but we're not sure. We decided to go right to the anchorage just in case it was also spending the night in there, and arrived around 3:00pm. Driving around the large bay, you could "feel" the water getting colder. We saw the temperature go from around 44 down to 36. It was quite "milky" with all the glacier runoff.

I was feeling pretty crappy and, oh surprise, it was raining out and so I didn't want to go anywhere or do anything. Greg put a crab trap in the water since the place was "filthy" with crab traps, and then we sat on the couch and I got out my blankey, coughed up a lung, and we watched television. (The ones that were about to expire). Just before dinner, Greg checked on the crab trap and got nothin'. We had some of the halibut on the BBQ for dinner which was lovely. Even some vegetables too.