Meyers Chuck is a little pocket surrounded by islands creating a very secure hideaway anchorage in a storm. Click on chart to see enlargement and the hole in the wall entrance.
Once inside there is a public dock and an anchorage.55° 44.390’ N / 132° 15.462’ W
The quirky little community of cabins, a few homes, an art & crafts gallery, (where Jo found her fish bone earrings) even has a part time post office. One of the residents brings hot sticky buns down to the dock in the morning.This is a shot of the head of the dock; bulletin board, phone booth that only takes credit card calls (no coins), and an official mail box with a sign affixed that says "Mail Pick up - 10 am Tuesday".
Several boats came in while we were there and we had a good time visiting. Met a gal who's husband bought a town in Washington, on ebay. She said when he saw it had hydro-electric power, he had to have it. So he's the mayor, his partner who bought in with him is the town planner, and they have a full time caretaker. We looked on the internet and it's there. Also a young couple from Homer, Alaska, heading to New Zealand with their 7 year old daughter to start a new life there. Also a full-white-bearded salty sailor who spent his winter in the Broughtons on Vancouver Island at Pierres. He caught us up on the local doin's of our acquaintances from that part of the world whom we visited in summers past.
Sunset at Meyers Chuck.
The next day we headed for Ketchikan along the west side of Cleveland Peninsula on the mainland into Tongass Narrows.
Ship Island just off the shore along the way. We had a spell of beautiful weather after leaving Santa Anna Inlet that lasted for several days
Guard Island Light, at the north end of Tongass Narrows off of Point Vallenar
One of the several cruise ships that leave Tongass Narrows daily. One of these ships left a pretty good-sized wake, that we took part of over the bow, and unfortunately into the open hatch. Most of the stuff dried pretty fast once we got in. But the salt water needs to be washed out of clothes, cause otherwise they will never dry.
July 1, back in Ketchikan at low tide and a steep climb out of the harbor.More later,
George and JoAnne
