August 13th.
Juneau.
If you have been watching our tracking program you will see that we have moved on a bit, from the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak and Prince William Sound down to SE Alaska headed in to Juneau, the state capital.
We arrived in Homer, Alaska (bumper stickers read “a quaint little drinking town with a fishing problem” ) on June 24th and stayed there for a couple of weeks until the guests arrived. Homer was really good and the people there, and in fact all the way through Alaska, have been super friendly. Several times fishing boats have swung past and dropped off some fresh salmon or given us some halibut. Not too many boats like Timoneer ever get up here and we create a huge stir wherever we go.
We did a bit of cruising around Cook Inlet before an overnight trip down to Geographic Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula just west of Kodiak. We saw lots and lots of grizzly bears, managing to get very close safely with the dinghy while they walked on the shoreline in search of food. Great photo opportunities.
We cruised through the Kodiak area seeing lots of whales, Orcas, sea otters and other wildlife. From Kodiak we crossed to the east side of the Kenai Peninsula where there a huge glaciers at the Kenai National Park.
We dropped off one set a guests in Seward and waited there for the Boss to arrive a few days later. Nice little town and a good break. We spent nearly two weeks in Prince William Sound which is fantastic – Many many Glaciers, waterfalls and great wildlife. We interspersed our wilderness adventures with stops at the few small towns where we became the talk of the town. Few super yachts get up to this area it seems and no one had seen anything like Timoneer before. We were made most welcome at Whittier, Valdez and Cordova and enjoyed the hospitality. This is the area that was devastated by the earthquake in 1964 and then again in 1989 with the huge oil spill from the tanker “Esso Valdez”
From Cordova we had an open ocean passage down to Juneau but we picked our weather and made several stops along the way, Yakatat, Lituya Bay, Indian Cove and Salt Lake Bay, arriving here at the Marina in Auke Bay today.
During all this time we have been catching lots of salmon, halibut, cod and rockfish. At night we set our shrimp pot and have done rather well. Crabbing was illegal up north but now we are allowed here in SE Alaska and have already had a great meal of Dungeness crab.
We will update the log when we start moving again.
