[password] STUART32

[position] 60 20.189N 146 32.702w

[date] 2019-08-07

[status] We headed around to Garden Cove anchorage in the SW corner of Hinchinbrook Island to stage for a morning departure to Icy Bay. This bay is large, dead flat, good anchoring depth with a sticky mud bottom, and lovely despite having to share the anchorage with a giant oil freighter/barge, the newest and largest tug boat we've ever see, two fishing trawlers and another cruiser in a trawler. Yes this is the most crowded anchorage we've been to since arriving in Alaska. We've only had to share one other anchorage and that was with just one boat for one night when we were in Whale Bay. All that said, if we weren't planning on going to Icy Bay tomorrow I would've liked to hang around here for quite some time.

[weather] Clear skies, no wind or swell of course.
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