birds & bears

Red Bluff Bay. Looking up at this from the Mokai was a wonderful experience

Jay in Mokai paddling around the Alaska Quest mini cruise ship

at the Petersburg dock. The green fishing boat Osprey we last saw in Port Alexander in 2010. It was built in 1918 & is 94 years & still looking good *

much younger retired bayliner *

New anchor on & JoLee headed out for tour of Petersburg. Old concrete dock walkways were the best of all docks visited so far for getting in & out of the boat

JoLee in her comfortable seat. We can in the evening both sit facing each other like this in comfort

Jay

The West Marine folding seat.

seating in the cockpit. the Honda 2000 generator sits & runs from where shown. Has worked perfectly through many gallons of fuel from this position. The blue containers they sit on hold 48 gal of fuel in 8, 6gal jugs. The chest rides there without ice. *

anchored in the Fords Terror Inlet entrance bowl

mini cruiser Island Spirit crossing the Fords Terror inlet entrance bar

Fords Terror West Arm anchorage

Tidal rapids on East Arm of Fords Terror. Had lots of fun in the Mokai there

center of area hit by wind, dust & waves from the rock fall that fall a day or two before our arrival

photo taken just after climbing up through the Fords Terror tidal rapids to leave inlet from threat of another rock fall

JoLee & the Hunkydory in front of Dawes Glacier at the head of Endicott Arm of Holkum Bay

Jay in front of Dawes Glacier

Jay in front of the South Sawyer Glacier, Tracy Arm, Holkum Bay

The only black bear we\'ve seen on the entire trip eating in the tidal zone on Tracy Arm

North Sawyer Glacier scrubbing the rock walls

JoLee at the helm cruising through the ice burgs in front of South Sawyer Glacier

closer to the glacier in the Mokai

two on guard & one zonked out