5/31/13 Oh boy, there are two kinds of boaters, those who have run aground and those who will. I am not longer in the later category. We are in Kitkun Bay, sneaky little narrow entrance to a fairly pretty bay, unfortunately its been logged and not quite fully reforested but very secluded on the east side of Prince of Wales Island. We made it through the sneaky little narrows at low slack and decided to anchor behind the big island just to the east after entering the inner bay. The island has a nice large cove with 30-foot bottom. However, entry was barred by a 4 foot shallows on one side and a 3 foot shallows on the other according to the chart. I checked the south entry out with No Debt to see if it would go and least depth with No debt was 14 feet. So we gave it a try. Unfortunately I wandered too far to the left and found the 4-foot mark with my bow. Nothing damaged but pride and some scrapped bottom paint and 10 years off my wife’s life. She not a happy girl. Was able to back off and find the deeper water and got in. Stupid, if I had checked the other side of the island it was 30 plus feet, the chart showed only 3 so I did not go over there. Great anchorage, but take the north side of the island and stay between the island and the charted rock mid-channel. Crab pot down, looks promising. Steve and Michelle and Nat and Linda are going north to Wrangle for flights home, be back next week and will meet them there. Pete and Linda are coming out with Liz and Glen for the weekend. Nothing happening on the boat over the weekend so might as well come out and play. 6/1/13 No sign of Dodges last night? Bet they went to Kassan Bay, that’s where Glen was thinking of going but I did double check that we would meet in Kitkun Bay before we lost radio contact as they were headed to Ketchikan to pick up Pete, Linda and Dean. No crab but a pot full of large prawns. Put it back down for another pull later today. Were going to just sit tight for a layover day. We moved to the far end of Kitkun, which is far prettier than behind the islands and no shoaling or hidden dangers that are not already marked. No sign of logging down here, very secluded and peaceful. Listening to birds in the trees, small creeks entering the anchorage and watching an eagle fly back and forth across the head of the bay diving for fish. Clouds are hanging in the trees, snowfields just above the tree line, grassy shoreline perfect for wildlife viewing. If you ever want to check this bay out by all means go all the way to the end and anchor in 30 feet of good holding mud. Nobeltec does not have this well charted but INAVX has it well charted. Well protected from all directions, only a NW wind could find its way into the bay. Of course that is what we got. A few rain squalls off and on are making it less than perfect but in between the squalls the sun comes out and warms things up. Fell asleep on the bow for a while between rain squalls. 6/2/13 Moved south to Moria Sound and Aiken Cove on the SE side of Prince of Wales Island. Very pretty spot. Spectacular views of snow capped mountains at the head of the cove, very secluded and narrow entrance opens to a large landlocked cove at the end with large grassy flats under high snow capped peaks. We watched two black bears in the distance eating fresh grass. Sunny and warm today after a morning of rain squalls and gray mist. We returned later in the evening with high tide and counted 3 black bear in the grass. A bit skittish and could not get real close, might have had something to do with Linda’s camera flash which startled them when she tried to take their picture. She could not figure out how to turn it off. Oh well. On the way out of Kitkun we stopped for over an hour and watched half a dozen gray whales that were very active and within a couple hundred feet of the boats. Way Khul as Pete would say. This is a great spot, well worth returning to some day especially with the grand kids for bear watching. Could be gray and gloomy in rain but with blue sky and sun its grand. No one else is out here, very private. We saw a couple other fishing boats and found one other trawler anchored at the entrance to the cove, He missed the best spot, but other than that we got the place to ourselves and its fairly close to Ketchikan. 6/3/13 Headed back towards Ketchikan to drop Pete and his crew off to work on the boat. Got up early for a 7 am departure. It was a beautiful crossing this morning across the south end of Clarence Strait. Flat calm, no wind, whales in the distance, blue sky and sun ahead and clouds forming behind us and out in Dixon entrance.