Sunday July 15 – Monday July 16
July 15
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| Elbow Passage to Klag Bay |
We anchored at Klag Harbor after
a very intricate passage with many narrow and zig-zag channels. We explored the
gold and silver mine site that closed in 1943.
From 1905 to 1943, $13,000,000 worth of minerals was extracted from the
mine. Urs took many pictures of old
rusty equipment and collapsed houses. I collected stuff: rusty nails, some kind
of pottery used presumably for some technical purpose, and foxglove. The gold mine was like an outdoor museum of
rusted electrical and mechanical equipment:
frayed cable on a winch; a motor that Urs identified as electric; rock
crushers and separators; umpteen similar metal boxes that might have housed
switches or dynamite or … And then there
was daily life: a series of tiny
collapsed cabins with some paint still on the walls and electrical wiring; shards
from dishes; lots of nicely embossed radiators for heating the cabins; glass
jars with unidentifiable, no-longer-edible contents. I wondered where they ate and washed. A tin hardhat or cooking pot was in the
intertidal waters.
No bears but the salmon are
gathering and jumping.
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July 16
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| Lake Anna |
Near Klag Harbor is Lake Anna, where we anchored at a river mouth. This is not really a lake, but it is a fairly isolated body of water with a narrow entrance and strong eddies and currents. Sister Lake is a large lagoon that empties into Lake Anna with a 12-knot current on the ebb tide.
Urs worked all morning to fix the heater. The heater is important in this 10 C (52 F) weather. It seems to work again fine now. Time will tell. Heavy drizzle. We took the dinghy for an exploring ride. |
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