July 3, Sitka

Liz gave me a hard time for the first photo of the bear in the tree, something about a bears butt. So here is the better shot.




Crabs in the pots

We woke up early to dense fog in DeGroff Bay. We needed to get an early start in ordr to get to Sitka in time to meet Chris and Debbie's flight. It never occured to us that the dense fog just might create a problem for planes landing at Sitka. We had no problem navigating through the fog and arrived at Sitka at about 9am. Chris called shortly after and said that they were delayed in Juneau due to weather at Sitka so we waited.
they made it in about 1030, the fog was still thick and according to Debbie it was an exciting landing with the pilot getting an ovation from the passengers for finding the airfield succesfully. He was the first pilot to manage to land in the past two days. One poor guy on the plane had been 15 hours between ketchikan and Sitka as he waited for the fog to clear and multiple flights were cancelled or delayed.
Sherm made it out on time and were looking forward to having both him and nancy back in a few weeks. He was pretty helpful and made the run down from Juneau to Sitka enjoyable and I promised I would not list the litiney of small mishaps that could be blamed on him. (Fenders, Flames, Toilets,) In his defense he made coffee, lots of it, cooked breakfast, made lunch while underway, swept the cabin, did dishes and made the bed for Deb. All in all he's a pretty good first mate.


We walked the town and found it much more interesting than Juneau or Petersberg or Wrangel for that matter. We had a ringside view of the fireworks which were last night instead of tonight. Not sure why they set them off on the 3rd but they do. The fireworks site was directly across from the boats about 500 yards away and the concussion from the big rockets was pretty impressive. We had to drug up sofie so she was out of it. She found a spot down deep inside Glens boat and hid under a couple layers of pillows in Nicholes room and did just fine. She is still a bit unsteady on her feet this morning, maybe a half of a pill is still too much doggy downer.

Chris and Deb are on their way to do another load of laundry, the towels that never got done prior to my departure. Should be underway for Goddard Springs tonight. Tomorrow Glen and Liz have to be back here to drop off and pick up people. We will hang around the area and meet them on the 7th somewhere along Peril strait.
It looks like the salmon (kings) are finally starting to run so we will try our hand at some fishing out here.