Sun!! When we woke up there were shadows!! It didn’t last, however, but it was beautiful nonetheless. We pulled anchors and headed for Endicott Arm around 7am. We wanted enough time to get up to the glacier if we could, and then back to Ford’s Terror early enough to be able to take people in and out of the entrance by dinghy, which is always fun for first-time people, so they can see what they’re getting into (and what the current does before it’s slack).
There was finally an iceberg grounded on the rocks near our anchorage at Tracy Arm Cove, but no time to go drive around it in the dinghies today.
The scale of this area seems impossible to convey. Nothing looks as big in photographs as it feels in real life.
The texture on the walls from the scraping of ice over the zillions of years is so fantastic!
And again with the colors!!
We only had to slow to pick through ice a couple times…the area in front of the glacier was ice-free for a very long way.
We arrived at Ford’s Terror and drifted around a bit waiting for the flood to subside. It was running about 5kts into the entrance when we arrived around 2pm (slack at Wood Spit was 2:34pm). We ended up going in at 3:15pm with no current at all. We’re all anchored at the head of the west arm now. It’s raining, but beautiful, and the tops of the mountains that surround us are visible, so that’s a plus!
Kevin and Andrea set the shrimp pots (we got a tip that friends on a neighboring boat Objee has so far gotten 10 dozen coon stripes, so…score! Well, hopefully) and we’ll do dinner on our own and hope for some dry weather tomorrow for dinghy exploring. But we’ll explore no matter the weather.
Rob and Cheryl (friends of friends) on Objee (a Selene 48) invited us over to share some of those 10 dozen shrimp, so we traded a few lemons for shrimp and got to meet some new super fun boat friends!