April 30, 2005 Layover Day: Beartrap Bay Day 61
Today is Neptune’s birthday! It is his third passed aboard “Silent Partner” while we have been voyaging. We took a traditional day of rest– and Beartrap Bay was a great place to be, a true Alaskan paradise. We passed the hours away reading, fishing, and exploring a lagoon. In the afternoon I procured a chocolate cake which I had smuggled aboard in Cordova. The cake was nearly gone by sundown, which occurred sometime around midnight. The days are so long that we don’t know darkness anymore. Even at 0400 hours it is totally light out! I miss the stars. I pulled Modulus up the river that empties into the lagoon quite a ways, until the channel got too small and divided to float in. Then I hopped in and went for a wild ride, shooting over the gravel bars and careening off the river banks. Once back into the calm waters of the lagoon the birds protested loudly of my activity. The bottom of the lagoon is lined with green stones and thousands upon thousands of salmon jaws. At the bases of all the prime bird-perching rocks lay heaps of the submerged jaws.
