The boat is abuzz with animated discussion of the days whale watching activity. Arriving at the anchorage late in the day at high water slack, we were greeted by a pod of wales blowing and breaching - not a bad start for our new crew. One energetic whale with a flare for showing off obliged his gaping audience by throwing himself into the air in a rotating half-gainer a mere fifty yards from the boat. Bravo!
We started the day with a southbound transit of the Wrangell Narrows. While I steered the boat through a maze of navigation aids, Tom glassed the buoy numbers and Sue recorded them in a log and followed our progress on the paper chart. We timed our passage more for our arrival at tonight's bay than for the direction of the current through the narrows, so we were headed against it for most of the day. We were bucking three knots at one point.
On arrival at the anchorage, Sue went straight to work cooking thick slabs of fresh halibut on the barbecue. Encore!
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