Angoon didn’t impress us much. The docks were small and run down. They were not equipped for anything over 30
feet. We anchored in Favorite bay in
about 40 feet. We then dinghied over to
the docks. Simply put Angoon had nothing
to offer cruisers. The town is on the
other side of the island and the store is almost 2 miles from the docks. When we got there, it was closed for “restocking!” The
only thing going for the place was 4 LTE cell service. You could hoover for a few hours in the
straits and take care of any internet work you needed without having to worry
about the 9 knots around all the rocks trying to get into the place. It was a scary place to get into because of
all the rocks that turned into islands at low tide. We were happy to pull out the next day.
On our way to Cannery Bay we saw numerous humpback
whales. Got a little rough at the
southern tip of Admiralty Island as the swells came right off the ocean up
southern Chatham Straits and the wind hit us at the starboard beam. Once we turned north it calmed down.
We entered Pybus Bay to our anchorage in Cannery
Cove. What such an awesome place. The valley at the head of the cove opens up
to high green peaks with snow on top. Eagles everywhere. There is a fly in fishing lodge at the head
of the cove. There was plenty of anchor
room. We had 2 super yachts pulled in
and set their anchors. The scope of the
valley still made these superyachts look small.
We stayed for a few days. On the
incoming tide, the cove lit up with jumping salmon! Pinks and Chums. We had a lot of fun snagging some fish for
the freezer. Our partner, John got a
little frustrated at the snagging part.
It takes a little finesse to throw a 10oz treble hook over a school of
fish and yank on the fishing pole at the appropriate time to bury the hook in a
fish. You also have to have the proper
snagging pole as I found out. A big chum
busted the tip off my new Lamaglass rod which sucks.
I also took a dingy trip to the head of Gambier Bay
where I witnessed a show down between Brown Bears and black tailed Sitka
deer. These two big brown bears were
stocking a deer on the tidal flats. They
were staying low in the grass coming in from 2 different angles. This deer didn’t seem to mind as he was just
munching on sea weed while the herd was munching grass. Then the bears attacked and the deer simply
out ran the bears! It was cool to watch.
We decided to skip Wrangell and make our way to
Coffman Cove, a small town on Prince of Whale Island at the northern tip of Clarence
Straits. This is a small dock and it was
taken up by fishing lodges and commercial fisherman. One of the commercial guys pulled away from
the dock and sided tied so we would have a place to park. John and Tracey sided to us. Good thing because we had to go on a weather
hold for a few days. This town had a post
office, library (we found to be very valuable as all the libraries we can
across in our travels always had WiFi!), general store, outside dining, liquor
store and bar! So, if you have to get
stuck in a few weather days this is not a bad place to be.
We had a lot of fun here, but it we both had company fling
into Ketch for a tour of Misty Fjords for 5 days, so off we went south. It also became a realization that we were
also heading south for the last part of our stay in Alaska for 2017.
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| One of the "Rocks" which turned out to be an Island |
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| Whale |
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| Cannery Cove! |
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| Another Whale |
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| Coffman Cove |
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