Galley Views En Route to Endicott Arm

June 13-15

In Southeast Alaska you can drop anchor in a different anchorage every day for the rest of your life, and still have many lifetimes of anchorages to go.

En route from Petersburg to Endicott Arm we travelled more than 100 miles spread over two days, the first day anchoring at Read Island around 2 p.m. in water as smooth as glass. Roland and Scott dropped prawn and crab traps and we enjoyed a ride around the bay in the tender.

The shoreline was dotted with beautiful wild flowers,  spruce trees rooted on top of fallen logs, and plant and sea life of all sorts gripping to rocks rising from the water.

Later back on the boat Roland caught this stunning shot of a pair of eagles ... in apparent disagreement, perhaps over whose turn it is to go out and catch dinner ... vaguely reminding me of our own domestic quarrels.

 The next day, after pulling up empty traps, we headed back into Frederick Sound and under glorious sunny warm weather we were treated to an afternoon cruise of whale-watching. Sadly, or shall I say TRAGICALLY, I lost all of my photos of the whales in Lightroom, a photo software program that continues to confound me. But luckily, another boat ... Russ & Toni in Traveler ... caught one of our whale encounters on video and generously edited it to music and shared it with us (posted in previous blog entry): 

Whale tails in Frederick Sound ... on video

We passed the Five Fingers Lighthouse (marking five small islands in a row like fingers on a hand) which oddly looks more like a church than a lighthouse and 17 miles later dropped anchor in Windham Bay, traveling through narrows that open into an upper bay with a vista spanning glacial covered mountains.

After a full day of cruising it was time to make dinner. Out on the water, I spend a lot of time in the galley. There are no restaurants or take out orders ... so breakfast, lunch and dinner all come from the galley, along with clean up. I guess some would consider that a lot of work, but with an ever-changing view from my galley windows ... this boat gives new meaning to The Joy of Cooking.