July 18, 2017

Engines on a 5:30am! We needed to be at "Devil's Elbow" at 8:45am for high slack, so that's when we needed to leave. It was a beautiful calm glassy morning and the ride down and through was lovely. Certainly needed to pay attention, and there were spots with pretty low depth of 11' or so, but it was fine. Lot's of kelp.

We hadn't planned to go all the way to Wrangell today, but we didn't know exactly where to stop. We were thinking of Point Baker, Port Protection made for too long a day the next day. So we continued on as the conditions were ideal. We were thinking of either Totem Bay or St. Johns. We also ended up going *into* the current the whole way which was not ideal. But, we thought we could be in Wrangell at 3:30 as that's what the route said, so we just kept going. It turned out to be 4:00pm. Long day.

We texted Ken and Kim and asked if they were interested in going out to dinner at the Stikine with us and they said yes. So we arrived and I showered and we went out and had a really nice dinner. They have had buckets of company and had more arriving the next morning so we had an early evening.