Thorne Bay 08/08/2025

 Playing “Where are the rock(s).”

High tide

Low tide

That’s a serious difference, we don’t want to anchor too close to the shoal.

High tide

Low tide

We anchored between “a rock and a hard place”. 😁

We’ve been in this bay before, it doesn’t have a name, but it’s right next to the entrance to the small community of Thorne Bay. I think everyone who lives there has a some kind of a boat, skiff or kayak, that would add up to about 475 boats. I don’t know how many homes are on the road connected to town, but cabins and homes line the entire bay, called the North, and South ends, and many of the inhabitants are accessing town from the water. 

We took our dinghy to town from our anchorage, it's about 3 miles. We wanted to know if they had a fuel dock, they do, what the grocery store looked like, bare, as the supply barge hadn't been in yet, and what the cost of moorage  is if we wanted to bring Denali Rose in, $1.00 a foot, addl $25.00 for power - ea 24hours. 

When departing, I always take a photo of Denali Rose from the dinghy.

We're assuming derelict crew quarters from bygone logging era.

The marina entrance to town.

One evening in our bay, we had an unexpected visit by a humpback whale. He scooped up whatever food he found, and exited out.

Not a great photo, but sometimes you just have to live in the moment, and not through a lens.

Another favorite spot for Gus, when he is feeling ultra relaxed underway. This is his carrier, we keep it out in the cockpit in case of emergency. If needed, we could stuff him in there, zip it up, and be ready to take whatever action the emergency warranted. I have a spatula in there, because he likes to lay on the top, and it crushes the container, so the spatula mitigates some of that. 

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