“June 25. Internet was slow to connect. Worrysome, mostly for Laurence’s sake (hence; mine). We feared it might not work as well this far north. It did get back to normal; about a half hour later than normal. BTW: It is light by 1:30 am ( pissing time) and I am not sure it actually gets dark, as we go to bed at @11pm, when it is still light. And we’re not exactly at the North Pole; so it must be bright all night, north of here? We left the Visitor Information cove at @ 7:30am, in a slight drizzle. The seas were calm and the drizzle stopped and the skies cleared to mixed in about 2 hours. Whooop whooop whooop. We were pulled over by pirates? Ok…..the park enforcement officers in a “tinny”. Two young guys with side arms and an air of superiority. Apparently the whale research vessel reported that we came within one nautical mile of the whale protected shoreline. We apologized; stating that we though we were a mile off but did not have a fancy chart plotter and had to more of less; give it our best guess. They kindly decided not to shoot us, gave us a verbal (did’t want to board us because Pi was barking at them, I guess…….good Pi) “citation” and sent us on our way. We shut off the motor and drifted for lunch. The current and light wind was pushing us in the right direction. We saw numerous humpies in the distance, lots of birds a few sea otters and even the odd harbor porpoise. The landscape, view from SeaScape; was scaped by past scrapping glaciers and was untouched by logging or other human influences. Quite inspirational. My photos don’t even begin to do justice. It took us 8.5 pleasant hours to get to our planned anchorage; Reid Inlet, about 2 hours south of the glacier that is our goal. We found a nice sunny anchorage at the mouth of Reid Inlet at about 7pm. There is an inland glacier at the head of Reid Inlet. With up to 25 foot tides; I was a little worried about our 35 foot deep anchorage but the scope of our anchor chain and the lack of winds and tides made going to bed that night easy.
Reid Inlet anchorage
