15 Jul 23

And, kaboom!! We are on the brink of Glacier Bay. I have to say that the mountains to the north are impressively high, but the amount of snow and ice visible from here is way less that we could see from the dock at Elfin Cove. Anyway, we got up and pulled the anchor at 10:30.  The current in North Pass was with us, and so was the wind. At 10:48, we shut down the engine and sailed with 13 kn of wind behind us. That lasted for an hour until we were on the north side of Le Mesurier Island. By then, we had noticed that there were a lot of fish (all salmon) jumping out of the water, so we slowed down and put the hook in the water. We trolled until we reached the anchorage on the east side of Le Mesurier Island, but never had a nibble. At 14:10, we anchored in 16 m of water in a completely open roadstead that is in the shadow of Le Mesurier Island as long as the wind has some west in it. Which it is forecast to do all night long. This is the closest anchorage to the entry to Glacier Bay (Bartlett Cove Ranger Station is only 10.8 N-m away). So, we give thanks to the wind gods that it looks like we will have a peaceful night. We plan to get going tomorrow morning, in time to make the 09:00 orientation that is required of all visitors to Glacier Bay. The afternoon was a lazy, sunny affair; the sky has just about completely cleared up. After dinner, we watched the Astros @ Angels; Astros . Propane tank #2 ran out this evening, so I switched to tank #1. The NatGeo “SeaBird” went past about 20:00.  

58-17.716’N, 136.01.903’W; Log = 14.5, Sum = 1465.6; Eng hrs = 2.8, Sum = 3343.3