Tlingits and Mickey Mouse
We left Auke Bay after a 2 week stay at the dock. We counted 3 days of sunshine and 11 days of mist or rain. Best not to be counting. We also saw whales from our slip, hiked to a fantastic overlook of the Mendenhall glacier, saw an awesome one-man theater production, hung out under the pavilion at the currently deserted University of Alaska SE campus, fixed two nuisance leaks, cleaned and rebuilt a fuel filter, and took a trip up the mast in the Bosun chair to unsuccessfully fix our dying wind sensor. It was a good 2 weeks, and we'll get by with our built-in human wind sensors. While we were in Auke Bay the grass grew a foot, the skunk cabbage doubled in size, and the leaves finally budded out on the trees. Summer is getting here. We are headed west toward Glacier Bay National Park. After a nice afternoon and night at anchor in Swanson Harbor, we crossed the Icy Straight on a blue-sky day. There were Dall’s porpoises chasing each other around and we turned off the engine and drift...
