After Bradfield Canal, we spent one night in Vixen Harbor on our way to Ketchikan.
The entrance to Vixen Harbor is always a fun transit…we’ve written posts about it several times before (here’s one), but the charts are wrong, and the route that looks best on the charts has only about a foot of water, and the other route looks to be intertidal (which is likely why more people don’t come in here), but it’s lovely.
We rented a car through Turo in Ketchikan for 24 hours so we could more easily take Kevin’s mom out to dinner and to the airport in the morning (with a little sightseeing thrown in).
We spent the next day doing errands (oil change, getting packages from Frontier Shipping, replacing the horn on Airship that failed just in time for Fogust, etc.).
On Wednesday morning we fueled up with diesel, dinghy gas, and propane, and headed south for Kah Shakes Cove. We dropped the anchor and Kevin went out to find some silvers (came back with one nice silver, and one pink for crab bait), and we dropped the crab traps overnight.
Fresh coho for dinner…super yum! With a side of sautéed spinach, zucchini, and a little coconut rice (and bang bang sauce).
We had one nice keeper crab in the trap this morning, then decided we would head out. But then, I realized I’d read the tide table on Navionics wrong…the tide currently was at a MINUS 2.2, not 2.2, so we waited a bit and enjoyed a relaxed morning until we had a zero tide around 10:30am.
Skinny exit at zero tide, but still had 13 ft or so beneath the keel.
We cruised the 10nm down to Foggy Bay to cut that extra hour+ off our day tomorrow as we cross Dixon Entrance and head for Prince Rupert.
Always sad to say goodbye to Alaska, but also fun to get back to all our home activities after an amazing summer!