Taku Harbor is a favorite anchorage for boaters from Juneau that want to get away for a weekend. It has a free public dock with walking paths to a small shelter, an old decaying cannery site, and some abandoned coast guard housing - things to explore while stretching our legs. It's late June, so I'm surprised there aren't more boats in here. We tied up to the dock for the night and talked to some of the other boaters. One couple from Juneau said this place gets crazy on a three day Memorial Day weekend. Motor-cruisers tie up three deep to a floating dock on the other side of the harbor and get drunk, discharging firearms haphazardly. Lovely. It's nice to be here with a little more sanity.
We spotted a young bear while we were under way today. It was foraging along the shoreline. This is big news only because we were becoming convinced that in spite of all the information claiming the forest is thick with them, we hadn't seen one bear since leaving Canada. Now we can happily report that Alaska has at least one bear.
We arrive in Juneau tomorrow a day early. We still have the three gallons of bottled drinking water, so we've been able to get by with what we have by washing dishes in sea water and drinking the iceberg melt that Frederic corralled, but it will be nice to get into town and fill the tanks.
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