[password] STUART32

[position] 59 55.404N 141 21.868w

[date] 2019-08-10

[status] Icy Bay is turning out to be the most stunning of anchorages. Apart from the views, looking at the second tallest snow capped mountain in all of Alaska and Canada, and the glacier, there is excursions up inside the glaciers. Yesterday we used the dingy to go up to the face of three of the glaciers. This was the farthest we'd ever taken the dingy, it was 34nms to get there and back. We took precautions knowing it is remote, icy waters, and a long way. We took spare fuel, our 2nd little outboard and spare fuel for that one also. Had lunch prepared, a thermos of tea and one of soup. There was also the VHF, bear spray, air horn etc. Everything worked out sensationally, got to dodge and weave our way through the ice, at times having to stop the engine and move with oars pushing away ice bergs to clear a path. The glacier we stopped at for lunch was cracking loudly, it sounded like deep thunder and lightening. There were hundreds of seals around lounging on the ice bergs, many of which came up close to check us out. Some very weird water up there too. We saw the typical grey glacial water, green, blue and swirling brown waters in 150m of depth which we put down to large chunks of the face peeling off under water. All up this was an extraordinary day. One that was most unexpected as we've not read any other blogs that talked about how much this anchorage has to offer. We'd highly recommend this stop to other cruisers.

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