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Fish Farms on Sheep Passage |
We past Sarah
Island and think of our friend Sara, because it’s her birthday. It’s also cousin Jamie’s daughter Desiree’s
wedding day. Busy day!
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Swanson's Red Brick Chimney |
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Khutze |
THE sun is at
mast height when we arrive, there is a shallow entrance on one side of the Khutze
inlet entrance possibly because the glaciers pushed to the entrance and left their
tailings below the sparkling waters on one side.
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It is evident that snow avalanches have left their swift passage marks on the now raw granite face burnishing it silver grey. The speed of the snow melts fall breaks the water into spider web like streams with its direct and no nonsense descent from this height. At the head, a marsh veils the river entrance like lovers too shy to reveal the source of their escape from the secret that they had with the mountain.
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Khutze Waterfall |
It’s a no
brainer. WRONG, AS SOON AS WE PUSH BACK WITH THE DOGS ON BOARD…………….. Up pops
mom griz’s head behind where the boys have left a small nature deposit and
right beside her two cubs immerge. She is none plus about the visitors, lifts
her nose to get a whiff, senses no danger, rolls on her side and serves
breakfast to the little ones. WOW not even clicking of are cameras close aboard
interrupt the gift that Mother Nature has allowed the privilege of viewing this
superb sweet moment .
THIS TIME IS
VERY DIFFERENT, we have many new
visitors not just many, many big
horseflies and they are veracious. There are so many that for a moment I thought
that they were going helicopter Chevy to (the beach and finish her off). We
lift the hook (to find a location with less horseflies and move down to a small
creek with a alluvial fan look for a not to deep spot of 150 ft., or less and
shore tie off with the line returning to OA.
The challenge in
all these little bays look so secure and out of the shadow off
danger, but this is not the case. At
tide change for a short time they become a swirl of back eddies and swift
current will set in. The bow anchor chain grumbles and the stern line sings
like a violin string and the whole shooting match heads for the reef that you
have carefully planned and positioned your propellers to avoid contact with. A
few anxious moments and the commotion wanes.
Some of you are
thinking why are you always looking to shoreline to the beach? Most Inlets are
very deep in fact there is some that you can lay along a sheer cliff and still
have 500 ft. of water under your keel. If you extend (in our case) all are
chain out (375 ft.) it would weigh with anchor about 1ooo lbs or more. This is
hard on the winch and you could experience a system failure. Out would come the
hack saw, tie the chain of with rope and buoy and come back to claim it some
future date.(MAYBE) YOU DO NOT WANT
SYSTEMS TO FAIL AT ANY TIME, BUT WHEN
NORTH IT GENERALLY A LONG COSTLY REPAIR AND WILL MOST DEFINLITLY PUT A DENT IN
YOUR BOATING PLEASURE AND YOUR POCKET BOOK..
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Momma Black Bear with her Cubs |
Later after
the sun has gone down and horseflies depart we join our friends for happy hour
and catching up on all the gossip.
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