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A Fishing Story - 1989 the f/v My Colleen
by C. C. Crow photos by author
We stayed two nights in Glacier Bay and I took a tone of pictures.
You're only there once, might as well enjoy it. Even the expensive cruise ships are
in and out in a few hours. We anchored, scouped up some glacier ice and made cocktails.
Here's to you poor slobs back at work!
Glacier Bay
lunch at the lodge
fresh crabs
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6-22 THUR
No bears. We go back to Bartlet Cove early and fuel up. I make
calls to Alaska Marine Highway and add stops at Juneau and Sitka,
briefly at Wrangell. Call Bill- oh well. Les realizes we need to
relax and go on vacation. Test fishery today and plans on getting
to Snug Harbor on Wednesday next week. So we have lunch at Glacier
Bay Lodge, then leisurely head up the bay. See whales, orca, slow
up and anchor in Reid Inlet, one mile off glacier for night.
Before, we anchor next to Alaska Solstice, big scope AHS, walk up
to foot of glacier to say hi. Meet Ausis, chinese dinner,
Glacier Ice cube cocktails. Probably one of the greatest evenings
a person could ever enjoy- parked in something you've spent all
winter building next to something incredibly outstanding GLACIER
BAY ALASKA.
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6-23 FRI
We move up the bay and check out John Hopkins Inlet. Lamplugh
Glacier is as far as we can go at the mount of the bay, there is
just too much float ice, we dance with the cruise ship Universe,
then follow her up the bay to Grand Pacific and Margerie Glaciers.
Margerie is very active, we eat a good breakfast and watch her
dump new icebergs into the bay. Alaska Solstice calls over the
radio to another boat, "Yeah, we're serving breakfast, could you
slow down a bit as you pass." The reply is tough luck buddy (buy a
bigger boat) 19 guests where eight would be about right. We hang
out, then move, seeing a couple of whales who elude or photo
attempts. We call on the radio and say good-bye to the
rangerettes, cross over Icy Straits into Cross Sound on the tide,
push through some ocean swells thought a passage into ELFIN COVE.
The small village is very neat, fairy tale-like. We buy fuel at
the fish station, then move around to the back of the cove and tie
up for the night. We take a walk into town, boardwalks wrap the
tiny island which includes a small post office, school and general
store. Les talks to the locals regarding our passage. We cook
dinner late, without coordination or forethought- we need to think
ahead.
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Elfin Cove
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