The trip through Wrangell Narrows from Petersburg takes you through two different tides. The tide from Petersburg floods south and the tide from Sumner Strait floods north.
They meet just about half way at Woody Island.
When you get there, you have a few navigational aids to sort out.
Wrangell Narrows is a beautiful passage, there is spectacular scenery around every turn.Here is a Bald Eagle tree. Click on this photo to enlarge and see how many eagles you can find. There are numerous fishing resorts in this waterway, and from the amount of crab pots we saw all the way through, they must have excellent crabbing as well as salmon fishing.
On our passage from Wrangell Narrows to Wrangell, we suffered lumpy seas, rain and foul currents from the Stikine River on the last half of the trip.
Wrangell in View.
Once at the Harbor we called the harbor master and were assigned moorage at the transient dock. 56° 27.880’ N / 132° 22.910’ W
Moorage here is very reasonable, $13.38 per day including power.We plan on staying just two days before heading down Zimovia Strait to Ernest Sound.
Murals painted on the sides of buildings seam to be in vogue in the Northwest. Wrangell is no exception.On one of our walks into downtown Wrangell I drooped into a hardware and marine supply and spotted a Whale Gusher repair kit. It looked like it had been on the shelf for ages, but it was just what I needed to get our sanitation system up to speed again.
A sign of the times in Wrangell.
JoAnne found a friend at the Pirates Cove in downtown Wrangell.Tomorrow, I will have to get her out of town and head 44 miles
down Zimovia Strait to our next anchorage at Santa Anna Inlet.
Stay tuned.
George and JoAnne
