Windfall Harbor, Seymour Canal to Tracy Arm Entrance Cove - May 25

Barrie's Bear

I awoke this morning at 4 am (thanks to Duffy) and it was simply too beautiful to go back to sleep.  Made a pot of coffee and dropped the kayak into the water.  Paddled for an hour around the cove (including a stop on shore to check out the only cabin in sight) then back to the boat for a breakfast of blueberry pancakes.  

Then, finally, we saw our bear on the shoreline!  A very large brown bear with a white face.   Pulled the anchor just before 9:30 from a very muddy bottom which John scrubbed as it came it.
 
We had a smooth transit down Seymour Canal but this morning we had fewer whale sightings.  Once we reached Stephen's Passage we headed north along the eastern shoreline.  When we turned into Tracy Arm, 13 bald eagles flew over the boat.  Shortly after, we saw several boats anchored in Tracy Arm Entrance Cove but decided to continue on Williams Cove where the guidebooks identified a more secluded anchorage.  As it turned out, the anchorage was not usable due to the location of a very large iceberg!  We backtracked 5 miles to Tracy Arm Entrance Cove and dropped an anchor in just over 30 feet of water.  After a couple of hours we reset the anchor to try to eliminate the noisy drag of the chain across the rocky bottom.  And then it happened again, we saw another bear.  This one was on the near shore less than 250' from the boat.  We had a quiet evening at anchor.