May 10-13 Hi All, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL THE MOMS!!!! May 10-11, Cannery Cove: DDG….anchored in a punchbowl surrounded by snow capped 3k’ mountains with a salmon stream and meadow in front. This should be called waterfall cove…..Kathy counted over 20+ waterfalls and the sound of water falling is pretty loud!!! We were here … Read More →

May 6-9 Hi All, Monday May 6: Windfall Harbor….arghhhhh…..still raining…..sometimes pretty hard:(((( But, wildlife galore…we saw 5 more Brown bears, 8 total in Windfall….one clamming for hours, one just plopped down and took a nap in the rain, many eating grass (their salad). Sitka deer….~15-20, Kathy read where they love old growth forests and we … Read More →

May 1 – 5 Hi All, We did leave Skagway on Wednesday May 1….still sunny with some foreboding high clouds….heading south along Lynn Canal. We left early, ~7:45amish, to avoid stronger South winds in the afternoon and did 45nm to William Henry Bay…conditions pretty calm, but a foul flood tide kept our speed <7.5kts. We … Read More →

April 27-30 Hi All, We indeed made Skagway on Saturday, April 27 around noon….14nm, calm conditions, bright sunshine!!! We had been unable to get ahold of the Harbormaster since Friday so we just pulled into the small marina and started to look for a slip. Finally another boater came out and showed us the transient … Read More →

April 24-26 Hi All, OK…can’t resist to quote another friend: “Now that I know what a duck fart is, would go great with moose turds – venison cheese meatballs”…now that is livin’ the dream for sure:)))) The day before we left Auke Bay it actually snowed…..hard, blizzard like conditions at times…wow!! Kathy read it was … Read More →

April 19-23 Hi All, HAPPY EASTER!!!! I left off the last blog as we were in the middle of our Juneau City tour with Steve. BTW, Alaska Luxury tours is a new concept for Juneau….high end tours….they do whale watching and city tours…..Marquis by Carver boats with jet drives that carry up to 8 passengers….sip … Read More →

April 16-19 Hi All, We did leave Eight Fathom Bay in Port Frederick on Tuesday April 16 around 7:15am. We were going to Funter Bay to do some fishing but the weather was iffy for the next few days and we had a decent window to Juneau so we left a day early. When we … Read More →

April 14-16 Hi All, We sadly left Fingers Bay in Glacier Bay on Sunday, April 14 at around 8:30am. The weather to the north had lots of low clouds covering most of the mountains and somewhat partly sunny further south…..the way we were going. Last thoughts on Glacier Bay: Another one of our friends wrote….”such … Read More →

April 11-13 Hi All, Hey Kathy…..I see a wolf…where….over on the small ridge on that protected island….no John, that is a German Shepherd…really, did you just say that….OMG…..that is a wolf….oh, how beautiful…..oh no, he’s running away, wait, he’s stopped, giving us stink eye….I had already put Mystic in neutral and we were ~500 yards … Read More →