[password] STUART32

[position] 59 34.923N 150 29.960w

[date] 2019-07-10

[status] We ducked around the corner to Pilot Harbor which is up the end of the North Arm to the east of the head of the bay where the Nuka River runs. This was a weird anchorage in that none of our charts bore any resemblance to the depths we were seeing, there was generally lots lots more water than what either C-Map, Navionics, Gov't or the Sonar charts suggested. When we followed the 18m contour oin our charts we saw anything from as little as 8m up to 35m. We must've spent 90mins mapping the bay trying to work out where there was a nice flat bottom that was not too deep. The recommended anchorage in the NE corner was meant to be in around 8-15m but we were seeing 30m+ and that was with us way too close to shore to be able to sleep easily at night. In the end we anchored slightly north of centre of the bay in 25m of water and slept like babies. This north arm is huge! We took off in the morning in the dingy to go exploring. The range of water colours we saw was quite remarkable in that we saw everything from green, greeny-blue, bluey-grey to grey; with next to no visibility, our guess was the water visibility was less than 1m. The most northern end of the bay as the most ferocious waterfall we've ever seen. It was loud enough in the dingy, it would've been deafening if you were underneath it. Whilst we saw seals, otters, lost of birds, there were no bears to be seen.

[weather] no wind, no swell, cloudy skies.
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