Saturday, June 28 – Klemtu

It’s another gray day, but not as wet as yesterday. We motor through narrow Jackson Pass and stop for a visit at the native village of Klemtu. We’re pleased to discover cell phone coverage here and take advantage of the opportunity to call our kids. Just above the dock a resident is tossing out fish scraps, and we count ten or twelve eagles swirling and swooping above us. Julie can hear the eagles screaming in the background all the way from Calgary.

Docked alongside us is a lovely trawler, “Solitude”, and we discover that its captain is Brian Krumbach, a NAIM colleague of Diane and Byron Grant. Brian is in Klemtu to take the funeral services of an elder who has died of cancer. We find the townspeople very talkative and friendly.

We motor on through fog and mist to our anchorage at Khutze Inlet, where we raft together, using our anchor and Tangleberry’s sternline to shore. Like many anchorages here, the shoreline is very deep and sloping, so the line tied to a tree on shore holds the anchor tight.