Arriving Ketchikan June 13

June 13

As of 3 pm (EDT) Sunday cell coverage is back! They successfully anchored over Saturday night at Ham Island, “a wonderful spot.” Alex took the dinghy ashore and actually walked on land. A welcome phone call and text from David described the previous day’s adventures:

“Leaving our north-facing anchorage in Clam Cove (our last in BC), we could see Alaskan mountains over Dundas Island. In the channel we saw the Sir Wilfred Laurier, a Canadian ice breaker and research vessel. The Green Island lighthouse was ahead on the port side. Before 1906, when the light was built, that island was the site of major shipwrecks. One time after the light was working, its supply ship was late and it wrecked because oil for the lights had run out. We and the light are on the major shipping route to Alaska.
Rounding Whitley point we could see the Alaskan shore, and we headed across the Dixon Entrance to the border and towards the Tree Point lighthouse.

While there was a spot of cell phone coverage Alex filed the US customs app. Then there was no cell, then cell again and we we’re admitted back into the US, then no cell.

We headed north, took a shortcut through Danger Pass and kept going in overcast and rain using some battery.

I’m writing this Sunday morning in Ham Island Bight, our night harbor with our local harbor seal. The sun was coming up at 4 when I had to get up, and the sea was up to the trees. Now it is on its way down 16 feet, then we’ll be off to Ketchikan. At breakfast we heard whale spouts on the other side of the tidal bar. We’ll be looking for cell service since our satellite hardware is not working.”

They are now well on their way to Ketchikan, expecting to arrive by mid-afternoon.

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A couple of days ago, when they regained service after losing it for several days, they sent a number of photos and videos that they had been collecting. Below is a selection.

Wayward Sun Power Source

Lighthouse, June 5

Reid Passage, June 6

Fog lifting after leaving Klemtu, June 7

Looking South from Green Point, Khutze Inlet, June 7

Canadian CG Wright Sound Near Hartley Bay, June 8

Looking South from Grenville Channel, June 8

Waterfall at Butedale, June 8

Grizzly, June 10