Robert, Thursday, June 12
Well, the weather forecast was correct for at least one day. Last night when it was still dark, I heard the pitter-patter of rain on the roof. As the current sunrise is 4:00 am and sunset is 9:42 pm and it is light for at least a half an hour before and after, that narrows down when I heard the raindrops. We spent the morning writing for the blog. The internet connection in the campground requires setting up an account and paying. As the brochure for the town says there are many wifi hotspots we just took our laptops into town. The library was crowded but that is where we went for wifi. Leslie sat on the floor while I sat on a stool. We went to several hardware stores and finally found the fuses we were looking for. We went to the fish store and the only fresh fish they had was rockfish. While we stood there they carved off several filets for us. After a few more errands around town we went back to the trailer. As it was still raining we cooked the fish inside. Maybe the weather will be better tomorrow.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wrangell Narrows
Leslie Thursday, June 12, 2008
There was some additional excitement aboard the ferry yesterday from Wrangell that I couldn’t include in yesterday’s posting.
Shortly after we boarded there was an announcement that the crew would be holding two weekly safety drills. Usually aboard the ferries the safety information for passengers is merely an announcement that if an alarm sounds for 10 consecutive seconds, passengers should proceed to muster areas dressed as warmly as possible. The weekly drills are different. First the crew did an "abandon ship" drill. All crew members, including the cook and bartender, donned orange life jackets and gathered at abandon ship muster places. They lowered the life boats to the rail level. (One person I was speaking with said that he didn't plan to wait for the cook to tell him how to escape.)
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637109_mcZhP-M.jpg
The lifeboats are supposed to hold 63 people. Looks as if would be a bit crowded to me. I wouldn’t want to have to abandon ship for many reasons – but on this ship — the crew didn’t seem to know what they were doing. It appeared that they were all asking each other what to do! One method of escape is down a chute similar to the escape chutes on airplanes. One chute was completely vertical (not on an incline). The instructions said that the construction of the chute would slow the rate of descent. (Yes?) This is the escape chute.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637060_tdBcs-M.jpg
Here’s a passing ferry.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637174_RJb6c-M.jpg
And logs being floated down Frederick Sound.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637125_fHHAg-M.jpg
About an hour and a half out of Wrangel we went through the Wrangell Narrows. The ferry can sail through the Wrangell Narrows only at high tide. They say it is like threading a needle. Notice the red and green buoys. To stay in the navigation channel the ferry must keep the red bouys to the left and the green buoys to the right. The narrows are 23 miles long.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637213_sFv2w-M.jpg
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637223_sDssv-M.jpg
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637046_xHdYH-M.jpg
There was some additional excitement aboard the ferry yesterday from Wrangell that I couldn’t include in yesterday’s posting.
Shortly after we boarded there was an announcement that the crew would be holding two weekly safety drills. Usually aboard the ferries the safety information for passengers is merely an announcement that if an alarm sounds for 10 consecutive seconds, passengers should proceed to muster areas dressed as warmly as possible. The weekly drills are different. First the crew did an "abandon ship" drill. All crew members, including the cook and bartender, donned orange life jackets and gathered at abandon ship muster places. They lowered the life boats to the rail level. (One person I was speaking with said that he didn't plan to wait for the cook to tell him how to escape.)
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637109_mcZhP-M.jpg
The lifeboats are supposed to hold 63 people. Looks as if would be a bit crowded to me. I wouldn’t want to have to abandon ship for many reasons – but on this ship — the crew didn’t seem to know what they were doing. It appeared that they were all asking each other what to do! One method of escape is down a chute similar to the escape chutes on airplanes. One chute was completely vertical (not on an incline). The instructions said that the construction of the chute would slow the rate of descent. (Yes?) This is the escape chute.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637060_tdBcs-M.jpg
Here’s a passing ferry.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637174_RJb6c-M.jpg
And logs being floated down Frederick Sound.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637125_fHHAg-M.jpg
About an hour and a half out of Wrangel we went through the Wrangell Narrows. The ferry can sail through the Wrangell Narrows only at high tide. They say it is like threading a needle. Notice the red and green buoys. To stay in the navigation channel the ferry must keep the red bouys to the left and the green buoys to the right. The narrows are 23 miles long.
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637213_sFv2w-M.jpg
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637223_sDssv-M.jpg
http://CarpediemAdventures.smugmug.com/photos/312637046_xHdYH-M.jpg
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