Myers Passage to Oliver Cove

Day 76 – July 25

The sun is out with a high overcast sky. It was a bit cooler this morning. The big storm predicted for yesterday afternoon has not materialized yet.

We went for a long dinghy ride into Alexander inlet just to see what was there. It is about 5 miles long in a serpentine course. A few eagles watched us from the trees as we swerved trough the islets to the head of the inlet, low and behold 2 cruisers sat enjoying the area. We talked to one couple from Victoria who were exploring an island. They had slowed down and spent more time in each spot which had netted them 28 bear sightings this year.

We parked the dingy near a creek and walked the short distance through the woods to view a small lake.

It was time to head back so off we went weaving our way to the boats. We were surprised to see that kelp went across the narrows from shore to shore but our dingy depth inspection revealed a minimum of 14 feet so we only needed to chop up some kelp on our way through.

Back at the big boats we put all the toys away and pulled anchor. Our course took us past Klemto were the Miners had full phone and internet service and of course we had zero. This again bears a reminder that even though Verizon told us they had limited coverage in Alaska and we would have no internet card coverage, the Miner’s Verizon card has outperformed our AT&T card in every situation and had coverage most every time our AT&T cell phone has worked. The AT&T units have no coverage in Canada except south of Campbell River, at Port Hardy, and Prince Rupert. The Verizon Card had coverage available at the small villages in between and for only a $20 / mo. Fee instead of $ .59 / min. for the AT&T in Canada.

From Klemtu we headed south to Moss pass which included a 5 mile section of ocean water and so a little swell action. Liz made it through that reasonably well by watching a movie on the computer but after going through the pass and around the island we hit another roller section and that almost did her stomach in.

We arrived at Oliver Cove Provincial Park which basically amounts to a pretty cove with a sign, at the same time as it started to rain; our sun had almost lasted 3 days. While Liz rested to try to get her stomach back to where it belonged the Miner crew put a barbecue ribs dinner together but she still wasn’t ready when it arrived.