We waited in Pavlof for friends, Suzie and Roger on s/v Boru, who we met last year in BC. We spent a total of 5 nights in Pavlof, a new-favorite anchorage. We saw another sow with twin cubs and several individual bears. One day as I kayaked up towards the falls, watching the schools of pinks, I looked up to see a bear on the bank very close by. He was headed toward the falls and was also interested in the pinks. Pinks are also known as Humpbacks and are unbelievably thick in SE Alaskan waters this time of year. They school up by the hudreds at the mouths of streams getting ready to spawn, and because they're there so are the bears.
We had wind one night that kept me up on anchor watch. With Boru rafted to us we had more weight on our anchor and also more responsibility. Of course, our big Bruce anchor held us fast as usual. It was the first night of anchor watch, but that's not surprising since we have been tied to docks so much.
We met Ron and Becky on Conquest at Swanson Harbor earlier and again in Pavlof. They introduced us to beach asparagus and brought us some that they had made into a salad or salsa. mmmmm
Boru needed fuel and needed to see the interesting little village of Tenakee Springs, so we returned. By the time we arrived, the fuel dock was closed, and we were surprised to find that they have very limited hours. Didn't stop Suzie. She called someone and talked him into opening the fuel dock for a sale of about 20 gallons of gas. I think she could talk a brown bear out of a salmon he'd just caught.
On our way into Tenakee, we saw the yacht Le Grande Bleau, one of the world's largest. She is over 300 feet long and has a sailboat with 4 spreaders and a power boat that must be 40 feet long carried topside. She is owned by a Russian billionaire and, according to one of our magazines, was previously owned by Paul Allen's brother.
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