From Lagoon Cove to Glendale Cove & Beyond
July 23, 2008
Hello Bob,
We met you & Marilynn at the Lagoon Cove happy hour get-together on Monday, 6/23, and we promised to report our experiences as we continued up Knight Inlet.
As you headed up Tribune Channel toward Kwatsi Bay the next day, we headed for Glendale Cove and reached it by mid-afternoon. We spent considerable time trying to find good holding mud in the harbor just south of Macdonald Point across the cove from the Knight Inlet Lodge, but finally had to settle for a location that while it held the anchor well, there were small rocks on the bottom that rubbed the chain as Scottish Mist swung back and forth. This proved to be very annoying to some of our crew who are light sleepers. While the anchor held fast, the boat swung 360 degrees many times overnight.
The lodge is a bear watching operation. We went over to their docks to let them know we were anchored across the cove. They told us they monitor channel 68 as do most of the logging and fish farm operations in Knight Inlet.
We headed north up Knight Inlet early the next morning reaching Cascade Falls, the Spire Peaks, and Glacier Bay by mid-morning. Spire Peaks are right out of a Hollywood movie set. If you approach from the side, they appear two dimensional with height and width but no depth, like a cardboard facade.
There was no wind the morning of the 25th, so Glacier Bay was a mill pond.
Our crew, tired and cranky from the previous sleepless night, voted then to turn around and head for Sargeaunt Passage, Tribune Channel, and the comfort of Kwatsi Bay where we arrived late that afternoon.
Glacier BayFrom there we unwittingly traced your footsteps, stopping in Shawl Bay on the 26th, Sullivan Bay on the 27th, and out Wells Passage into the Queen Charlotte Strait with the morning fog and white rainbows(!) the morning of the 28th. With time running out on our Cooper Boating charter, we had to then turn east and head toward Beach Gardens Marina in Powell River.
Thank you so much for publishing the Waggoner Guide and website. You and Marilynn's efforts go a long way in getting us to return to the Northwest every other year.
John & Sandy Weed & Jim Consor
Larchmont, New York
