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Airship | Vixen Harbor, Ketchikan, Kah Shakes Cove, Foggy Bay

by Laura Domela 23 Aug 16:49 PDT
Airship | Vixen Harbor, Ketchikan, Kah Shakes Cove, Foggy Bay © Laura Domela

After Bradfield Canal, we spent one night in Vixen Harbor on our way to Ketchikan.

The entrance to Vixen Harbor is always a fun transit...we've written posts about it several times before (here's one), but the charts are wrong, and the route that looks best on the charts has only about a foot of water, and the other route looks to be intertidal (which is likely why more people don't come in here), but it's lovely.

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