June 30, 2017

This morning, there was a National Geographic small cruise ship anchored near Spray Island. We had thought about anchoring there ourselves, ….., but didn't. We had planned on leaving early, but left later than we hoped, around 7:45. It took an hour to get out of Thomas Bay and into Frederick Sound. We had some rolly polly's initially, and then it flattened out again. We got a nice push from the Ebb and made good time. The Douglass book said to expect some mixed currents once we reached Cape Fanshaw, but it was just fine. Once out in Stephens Passage though, it got a little choppy, but not too bad. Although the forecast has been winds from the south for forever now, there was a small wind from the north. When we passed Port Houghton though, there seemed to be quite an outflow and we had small waves on our beam.

We thought we would check out Hobart Bay, specifically a small cove on Entrance Island. We had talked to Carmine on "Sleepless" in Petersburg and this is where he caught his inflatable dinghy on a metal something or another. But he said they had not seen the "right" float that they should have been at until after it was too late. So we nosed into the cove at low low tide to take a peak. It was dead calm and lovely so we inched our way towards the float. Initially, Greg thought it looks submerged, but it wasn't, it's just riding REALLY low in the water. We knew we couldn't get any less water under the keel so we just kept going forward towards it and watching the depth sounder. We stayed on the outside of the float and we had 5' on the depth sounder so it was fine.

We wolfed down some lunch as soon as we got there, say around 1:00pm. There is a house on land a stones throw from the dock. It was calm and still and quiet and really lovely. We watched the birds for a while and listened to the king fishers complain about the intrusion. We had another quiet afternoon on the boat as Greg had a nap, and I read and downed some Hall's cough candies.

Our anemometer has been only showing apparent wind and not true wind, so Greg messed with that a little bit. Then he went out for a dingy ride to take a look around. I thought about going, but Bella and I stayed behind to write a Blog and read. He found another boat inside the Bay and also found the "thing" that "Sleepless" had looked at tying up to. Dinner and some shows in a very cute lovely cove.