Position N 52 d 48.668
E 173 d 10.081
If you plotted that position you will see that we are in Casco Bay rather than in Chichagof. After giving all the descriptions about working around the timing of arrival yesterday, the boats on the radio sched said they could guide us in using our AIS. If we started to seem to be heading off track they could hail us on the VHF. That would mean roughly 5 hours more sleep, so we took them up on the offer. All the boats in front of us assured us the electronic charts were spot on. We would have only attempted this if that was the case as there are loads of rock areas around here. As we were heading into the bay, an Orca played by us and followed us in for about half an hour. It was after sunset and getting dark, so no pictures.
We went for a little exploration trip around this afternoon. Again we posted wrongly yesterday, there are no inhabitants on Attu. They left a few years back. So walking around the old airport today was kind of strange. A ghost town atmosphere except loads of birds and flowers etc.
The scenery is quite nice. There is still snow on the hills only a few meters up. There was talk of a short hike up to get some snow for the drinks but really the rum and ginger ales last night were cold enough without ice! This morning we fired up the wood stove and had a nice toasty warm cabin for the first time in two weeks.
Anyway we plan to be here about a week between here and Chichigof and then head out on the next weather system that will carry us east.
E 173 d 10.081
If you plotted that position you will see that we are in Casco Bay rather than in Chichagof. After giving all the descriptions about working around the timing of arrival yesterday, the boats on the radio sched said they could guide us in using our AIS. If we started to seem to be heading off track they could hail us on the VHF. That would mean roughly 5 hours more sleep, so we took them up on the offer. All the boats in front of us assured us the electronic charts were spot on. We would have only attempted this if that was the case as there are loads of rock areas around here. As we were heading into the bay, an Orca played by us and followed us in for about half an hour. It was after sunset and getting dark, so no pictures.
We went for a little exploration trip around this afternoon. Again we posted wrongly yesterday, there are no inhabitants on Attu. They left a few years back. So walking around the old airport today was kind of strange. A ghost town atmosphere except loads of birds and flowers etc.
The scenery is quite nice. There is still snow on the hills only a few meters up. There was talk of a short hike up to get some snow for the drinks but really the rum and ginger ales last night were cold enough without ice! This morning we fired up the wood stove and had a nice toasty warm cabin for the first time in two weeks.
Anyway we plan to be here about a week between here and Chichigof and then head out on the next weather system that will carry us east.
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| view from the boat |
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| the old airstrip |
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| the old airport building |
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| the memorial plague |
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| a gun with a propeller from a downed plane |
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