July 12, 2017 - Happy Birthday Jan!

We had a bit of a lazy morning since. Slack at Sergius Narrows wasn't until 2:00 so there was no point in leaving any earlier than what we needed to. We left around 10:15 and had a lovely cruise up. Even Salsbury Sound was flat at we went by. We did see a cruise ship, the EuroDam, tied up to the container dock just north of town, so now we know that they *do* get cruise ships in Sitka. We also actually saw a couple of other pleasure boats!

We arrived at the narrows early, but it wasn't an issue. We had heard two other boats over the radio go through ahead of us as well. While it Sitka, we saw a boat called "Evergreen" tied up at the dock. We recognized this boat from Rosario on Orcas Island. As we pulled into Baby Bear Cove, it was anchoring just outside the small "nook" and we waved.

Although it had been a clear ride up, it immediately started to pour. Greg put his full rain gear on and went to drop the crab pots. We now had some salmon as bait so he put out 3 pots, 2 with salmon and 1 with halibut as an experiment. The guy from "Seeker" had told us that he limited out when he left his pots there so we were very hopeful we might finally get our first crab. We had planned to go for a dingy ride and see the sights but each time the rain let up, it just started pouring again a couple of minutes later. It was like someone knew when we started to think about it. So we had tea/coffee and read and kept looking to shore to see what we could see. No Bears. Bears are a myth in Alaska.

Eventually it was too late, and we made a nice dinner and watched one of my favorite movies.