Stardate 124150—
Entrance Island to Tracy Arm Cove: 57-48.6N 133-38.1W
The short, uneventful trip to Tracy Arm started with a mildly happy discovery: the new crab trap works. It would have been preferable to have landed an actual crab the first time around. This isn’t what happened.
Today’s journey presented a close-aboard cow/calf Orca and some interesting geology on Harbor Island at the mouths of both Tracy and Endicott Arms.
We thought “Seven (or Eight or Nine) Fingers Island” would be a better name than “Harbor Island”…
The primary excitement of the day came after a short, uneventful transit to the mouth of Tracy Arm and not far from Tracy Arm Cove where we spent the night. Ice bergs! Small ones that we’ve heard called bergie bits. The closest was conveniently just inside the red and green buoys marking Tracy Arm’s entrance. I very carefully maneuvered Encore alongside, and Asa knocked off a chunk too large to net, but sufficiently small to be lassoed with our port jib sheet and hauled aboard!
We then did a ten-mile round trip tour of the short leg of Tracy Arm during which we encountered several other bergs (a few bergies but a number of respectable-sized bergs), a large cruise ship, and a few smaller tour boats. That night came long-awaited whiskys and gin on berg ice!
Clearly, Puff The Magic Dragon Glacier …
Glaciers can look quite different from different perspectives
Tracy Arm tributary at the elbow to Sawyer North and South Glaciers
Bird Notes: Varied Thrush (we’ve not spent day with out hearing the unique call of these Robin-sized birds), Hermit Thrush (more prevalent), and oodles of Surf and (pretty sure, though the range suggests otherwise) White-winged Scoters in Tracy Arm Cove.
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