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June 29th 2012
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Taku Harbor is the site of an old cannery, Hudson's Bay Trading Post, and Native village
Tuesday June 26th, 2012 Ford’s Terror to Taku Harbor

We took another white-knuckled trip through the Ford’s Terror Narrows at high slack this morning. All the low-water rocks and shoals that were visible yesterday were underwater and the only thing I had to follow was yesterday’s track which was more accurate than the outlines of the chart. This time I made GPS marks in case the track gets erased. The anxiety was worth the chance to see this remote place of beauty and we were the only boat there.

Setphens Passage was calmer than predicted although the chop was building by the time we turned into Taku Harbor and tied to the public dock. On shore are the ruins of a salmon cannery and I read that before that there was a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post that traded with the Indian settlement here. So there is history here, now mostly covered by forest. BJ and I walked to the Forest Service cabin, read the guestbook and we hiked along the beach crunching mussels underfoot which annoyed the ravens that were enjoying their low-tide lunch.


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Trail!
I see a trail through the tall grass.

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