Video of Red Bluff Bay, SE Alaska 2010

Hunkydory

This link to my You Tube video is from some of our time spent in Red Bluff Bay, SE Alaska during our 2010 Cruise out of Skagway, Alaska. If you haven't read about & viewed the photos from this cruise you can by reading the thread "The 2010 Hunkydory Adventures of Jay & Jo-Lee" in the Grand Adventure Forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iL3Is_s5fI

This a the link to the photos & story.

http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=13945

Jay

20dauntless · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jay, Red Bluff Bay is definitely on the itinerary for this summer!

starcrafttom · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:09 am Post subject:

Did you see all those fish!!!! and all those bears??? They are everywhere.. Very cool thanks for sharing.

JGrider · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:40 am Post subject:

Great video! Had to watch it three times.

tomherrick · Guest

Always a treat. Thanks.

hambone · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:02 am Post subject:

Ditto Jay, great to see such a wild place is still available for us to visit.

H Wink

Will-C

Jay,
Red Bluff Bay looks like a real nature park. I wondered what you shot the videos with; a camera in video mode or a regular video camera? Seems amazing how fast the camera travels into full zoom and back. Great stuff as usual. Looks like it got a little lumpy towards the end. I bet you are itching to get going on your way back up to Alaska. Where are you headed for this time?
Regards,
Dave and Ginny

NewMoon · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:46 am Post subject:

Hi Jay,

Thanks for the great video - how soon will we be able to unwinterize??

Hunkydory · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:05 pm Post subject:

All, thanks for the positive comments.

Sam, bears will be most likely seen in Red Bluff Bay early in the season when the sedge grass is best to their taste (this is also good for walking ashore-the short grass makes for much less danger in surprising a bear) & later when the fish are running-in between, maybe not so much. Because it is so beautiful & easy to access there is most always more than one yacht present. Bear density is higher in many of the remote outer coast bays of Chichagof Island & some of the bays on Admiralty Island, but very few bays have all the good qualities of Red Bluff Bay----beautiful, easy access, great anchorage, fishing & wildlife viewing. It’s my favorite bay in Southeast Alaska to Rest & Relax. Who knows may see you there this summer.

Dave, the video is from a Sony XR520 video camera that uses the AVCHD file in 1080. Holds up to 240 gigabytes of memory in HD video & 12 meg photos. It makes for very watchable video on a big screen TV & of course, loses much of that in rendering to Mp4 & You Tube sized video.
Plans are to head up to Prince William Sound, Alaska in April, stay for a month or so & and then back to Skagway & Southeast Alaska till the end of July. Of course the leaving time & even accessing the sound area with all their record snow this year is very weather dependent.

That lumpy water at the end of the video is from crossing Chatham Strait from Red Bluff Bay to the tip of Admiralty Island. The wind was coming from the north down the Strait, upon reaching Fredrick Sound it immediately turned smooth as glass. I was a tiny bit nervous about one of the waves rolling the Mokai, but as always it road them well. It was definitely rolly due to going almost directly down the wave troughs. Any rougher & some sig-sagging would have been in order.

Richard, Hope to start the winterizing late march to very early April. Had better with plans of leaving around mid-April. Hope to see you up there again this summer.
Jay

bjidzik · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:25 pm Post subject:

20dauntless · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:52 pm Post subject: