Ryan’s Cove, Etolin Island 07.25.2013

After working most of the morning we took a lunch break and decided to enjoy our lunch on the back deck while there was a sun break – a rare treat the past few days!

This time we decided to head south from Wrangell down Zimovia Strait.  Plan “A” today was Frosty Bay which is close to the Anan Bay Bear Observatory.  On the way we spotted a “no named” bay.  Unable to find any written material about this bight, we relied on the charts which indicated it might have a couple of nice spots to drop the hook.  We are in the SW corner in 40’ of water.  Quiet and NO BUGS – another pleasant break!  So in fun we have decided to call this bay "Ryan Cove".

Just before bed, we had two tender boats pull into the head of our bight and there are now 2 seiners off loading their catch to the tenders.  Hopefully this bay will still be a quiet anchoring spot!  We’ll see!

Well our quiet little bight was full of activity throughout the night.  At one time I counted 14 seiners waiting to off load their catch to the tenders!  And each seiner had it’s lights on – so the bay was lit up like it was daylight!

 

As we were anchored very close to the head of the bay in shallow water – compared to what the seiners would anchor in – it was ok where we were anchored.  A little NE in the bay we did have a seiner anchor up while he was waiting to off load and he had numerous other seiners come visit his anchorage throughout the night.  In the morning when we got up, the seiner had two other commercial boats rafted up on either side of him.

 

 

 

 

 

But all-in-all, with so much commercial traffic in the bay it still was a nice spot to anchor.