Berg Bay

Ketchikan to Petersburg

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June 21st 2012
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(June 19th Continued) Anan Bay provides poor anchorage in an exposed bay with a steeply shelving bottom. So we went into the mountains beneath the peaks and above the chasms, rounding a couple of island sentries and into Berg Bay with little green meadows between the tide line and the dense forest. Snow fields loom directly abov ... read more

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