Day 68 – July 17
Yippee the sun is shining. We went for a long dinghy ride to explore Thorne Bay. There are many fishing camps and lodges in this large bay, which is more like a long inlet. Some of these operations are quite primitive while others appear to be very nice. Not sure any compare to the one we saw at El Capitan, but I’m sure they still catch fish. The town of Thorne like most of the small out of the way places up here is pretty small. One of the locals told us you could walk the entire town and see everything in 20 minutes; she was right. No restaurants, one bar (closed, but they were willing to open if we needed a beer fix), one combination tackle, gift, and sundry store. The marina was in very good shape compared to some others we’ve seen. They are building new harbor facilities (restrooms, showers, laundry etc…) at the top of the dock, and working on a playground and park area just up from the marina.
On the way back we stopped to pick up the shrimp and crab pots. Zero for Two in the crab pots and -1 for Two shrimp pots. Yep Glen has managed to lose another shrimp pot. Just because he doesn’t like shrimp is not any reason to lose the pots. There were about a dozen shrimp in Tom’s pot.
Tom and Chris saw a small black bear on the way back to the boats. It was on the move toward the woods. Evidently we had scared it as we zipped by in our dinghy.
We’ve moved all the save ables from the Miner’s refrigerator to our frig and ice chests; so their good to go until Ketchikan where they will buy a new refrigerator. We’re headed to the Kasaan Pennisula today, the exact harbor/bay has yet to be determined. We will go into Ketchikan tomorrow so that the Miner’s can do their major appliance shopping and installation.
Oh wait a minute, yes, Glen is lucky today. He just spotted the missing shrimp pot off Tolstio Pt. 1.3 miles from where he put it down. Who only knows how far it had traveled since last night. And for the record there was only one small shrimp in there snacking away on the salmon head.
Seeing some other boats fishing off Tolstoi Pt. we decided to stop and get Tom’s gear wet again. Gear got wet but no fish to be had.
We ended up anchoring in Smith Cove. There are rocks just about all the way around us. After dinner we went for a dinghy ride to explore. The area of Kasaan once was the largest logging operation in the world. There is evidence of long ago logging everywhere. First we went to Old Kasaan which has the ruins of an old Indian long house, and a few old Indian graves. All that is really left are large poles which were the support of the long house. There used to be totems here but they were moved to New Kasaan and to Kethickan for more public display. Glen found a very well used bear path leading through the long house to the beach; but luckily no bear this evening.
Next we went back past the boats and into Smith Lagoon. This lagoon is quite large and has lots of twists and turns, some wide passages and some narrow, some deep and some very shallow. All surrounded by a rocky shoreline. Good thing we have a GPS nav system on the dinghy as I’m not sure how one would find their way out of there without a mapping system. Next time I vote to explore this area in broader daylight. It was getting fairly dark by the time we got back to the boats (about 10pm).
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