June 20, 2005 Midnight Cove to Fox Farm Anchorage Day 112
Today we resolved to seek the protected waters of Prince William Sound. We woke to a rare calm day on the Kenai Peninsula and used it to our advantage to travel a long distance. All day we motored through a calm out in in the Gulf of Alaska. The day was divided into 2 hour shifts at the helm. The coastal current runs in a constant counter-clockwise motion along the capes and beaches. But we found a great gyre-current about 5 miles offshore, and kept our boat speed above 6 knots all day. During my off-watch I read and finished “Around the World in 80 Days” and slept. Around the Chiswell islands I saw thousands of puffins and hundreds of sea lions, but other than that we were pretty far offshore and the watches were mostly uneventful. At “sunset” around 1 AM we were slicing our way through the black glassy waters at the entrance of Prince William Sound. Our anchorage tonight contains sea otters, a big humpback whale, and many salmon that are leaping from the water. There are also a few speedboats, a reminder that we are close to Anchorage again.
