What a great day! First, the weather was perfect, light winds and partly sunny as the day wore on. Second, the scenery was spectacular as we motored through protected channels created by the dozens of little islands in the bay. Lastly, we had some unforgettable whale viewing.
The highlight was the pod of 4 or 5 sei or fin whales (we aren’t sure which) that we saw. These are bigger than humpback whales and exhibit different behaviors than humpback whales. For the DavidEllis, they had an additional treat seeing a lone orca grab a seal for its dining pleasure.
The picture to the right is of a humpback that was using a rock at the entrance of a pass between some islands to which we were heading as its scrub brush. Later we saw another humpback doing likewise on rocks next to the shore almost inside the pass.
After clearing the islands into the main part of Cordova Bay we continued around Cape Chacon and then up to our anchorage in Gardner Bay, on the SE shore of Prince of Wales Island. Despite our being exposed to ocean swells from the time we cleared the islands in Cordova Bay until we nearly in Gardner Bay, they were very low and the cruising was very comfortable.
The anchorage turned out even nicer than we expected. Rocky peaks rose from beyond the head of the bay. In addition, we had some really interesting jelly fish undulate past us.
Today’s mileage – 42.0
Cumulative mileage – 2417.2
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