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For those of you that wondered if we fell off the end of the world. We haven't! We kind of got stuck in our anchorage in Eshamy Bay. We were going to leave Tuesday morning but Monday night was a bit foggy and we decided to do a movie binge with a bottle of wine or two. So Tuesday was canceled while we slept in. But at about 09:00 Mark jumped up and said there was a sailboat just next to us. So out of bed we hopped to see it was Matt and Dana whom we knew from the W.H. Seward Yacht Club. As we missed them before leaving, they decided to swing over and say hello/goodbye in person. As we had not seen another soul for almost three weeks we began talking their ears off. So they rafted up to us and cooked us breakfast while we caught up. They only had a week in the sound so were under a bit of a time constraint. They were also traveling in tandem with a power boat who was having problems with a leaking hot water hose for his Northern Lights generator. Mark explained that he had a pretty sizeable supply of spare hoses and that he was welcome to whichever one might fit his need closest. So he came over to pick up the hose and offered to pick up Matt and Dana's Shrimp pots so they could visit longer. Finally at about 14:00 hours we were getting ready to depart when we spied a black bear on the beach. So we waited a little longer getting some pics. They mentioned as we got closer to Whittier during 4th of July week we might find anchorages taken up by fishermen. That night we had more bears to watch, and again the next morning. So we ended up staying longer and exploring the bay better by dinghy as well as get after some chores. Note : every day we had bears on the beach and one day we had three at once.
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| zoom is not good enough to catch the bear .... |
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| .... but you can make out that it is a bear |
So after eight days with nearly 80 degree temperatures everyday in Eshamy, we finally left. Our plan was to anchor in Blue Fiord Bite but after we had swung through the not often visited Kings Bay. We had signal again when we got out of Eshamy so it was clear emails and call mom and let her know we were having fun.
The smog was rather bad again today. All these high temps and no rain has been sprouting forest fires which cause the smog. We got about two thirds of the way down Kings Bay when the scenery dropped off so we turned around back to our anchorage for tonight.
We plan to leave tomorrow but if the smog is so bad we might delay. It is supposed to rain Tuesday Night and Wednesday, which hopefully will drop the smog factor a bit. We would like good clean viz or rain for when we enter College Fiord so we can get some good views of the glaciers up there.
The phone signal was only for a short while and we were motoring through multiple salmon fishermen and their nets so we could not upload any pics yet. We think that won't probably happen until we hit Valdez, but you never know we might get some signal in one of the anchorages before that.
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