Airship | Ketchikan to Kah Shakes Cove

Kah Shakes Cove, looking north into Revillagigedo Channel © Kevin Morris

We left Ketchikan on Thursday morning after topping off all of the fuels (diesel, propane, dinghy gas) and headed for…well, we weren’t quite sure where yet!

We’ve got a good window for crossing Dixon Entrance on Friday or Saturday, so we considered Foggy Bay, Judd Bay (on Duke Island), or somewhere we had not been before, and the new place won: Kah Shakes Cove, just north of Foggy Bay. The entrance to the cove is rocky and not well charted, so we were careful to watch our sonar, depth, chart plotter, and also the actual visible rocks with our eyes. We saw 17ft at the shallowest (on an 8ft tide). We dropped the anchor and then launched the dinghy to go explore further.

There’s a small stream that empties out into the bay where we are anchored (a salmon stream, clearly, since there are fish jumping everywhere), and then further around the corner, a much longer waterway with several small falls that enters the cove from Kah Shakes Lake.

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