July 9 - Sandborn Canal

A waterfall just outside the entrance to Sandborn Canal


Our first iceberg sighting upon leaving Petersburg

On the afternoon before we left, we looked off the stern of Bojangles in our mooring at Petersburg and saw our friends from Burrard Yacht Club cruise in. Betty and Mike, Wayne and Cathy and David and Penny had finally ended up in the same marina as us. It was great to see them all and hear of their fantastic adventures. As we left we left Petersburg however, we ran smack into a grazing herd of icebergs drifting out of LaConte Glacier. The channel was filled with blue-white icebergs and the smaller almost transparent "bergie bits" which are really hard to see but would give a nasty bump if struck. Luckily these icebergs were isolated in the initial stages of Frederick Sound so we managed to navigate through this maze unscathed.
We found our destination for the night to be a really well protected canal with no other boats so we anchored in the middle and settled in for a lazy afternoon of reading in the rain. Did we mention it rains up here from time to time? Two other boats eventually came in so we shared our solitude with these boats we had seen earlier in Petersburg.