Saturday 26 July 2008
We did’nt have very far to go today, so there was no real rush to get going all that early, plus we had to pickup the fresh cinnimon rolls we had ordered last night. They were very tasty! It was a little over cast this morning, but no rain. And as has been the case more times than not, no wind either. We motored north towards Teakern Arm with a final destination of Cassel Falls.
The scenery up here seems be getting wilder, if that makes sense. Probably just seems wilder due to the fact that there are less and less people, houses, boats…. The further north you go the less you seen signs of civilization. Which is very cool with us.
We did pass a tug boat pulling a freakin GIGANTIC boom of logs from some timber operation even further north. And as we turned into Teakerne Arm and made our way to the end, you could see huge log booms tied up to cliffs. The guide books say that tieing along side them is fine. And we did see one boat doing just that. But I could not see us doing it. Not so much cause it seem dangerous, but more becuase the tug boats that haul these things will show up when ever and unhook them and tug them south to the lumber mills. And I would hate to be woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of a tug boat and blaring lights and have to move spots.
So we continued on up Teakerne Arm till we found the area near Cassel Falls. There are a few little coves to stern tie in. Although call them coves is giving them a little to much credit. The spot we found was barely more that a small curve in the shoreline. But it worked just fine for us.
One we got settled in we hopped in the dinghy and headed for the water fall. Oh and we fired up the video camara to film the high speed approach.
The really cool thing about this water fall is, you’ll notice that it is set back in a sort of canyon. Along the walls of this canyon are a couple log boom rings. These have been here for years, but people will back their boat in this little canyon and tie thier boat in here. It’s actually to deep to anchor. So your just being held in place by four lines tied to the log boom rings in the cliff walls. A boat did it while we were there, but we did not think to take a picture of it.
This water fall was awesome, and super warm water. It was actual really warm water, but hurt like hell standing underneath it.
**WARNING** The following video contains pasty white boy with a beer belly **WARNING**
Actually, when I watch that video i’m reminded of that Bigfoot video for some reason??
After that little adventure we headed over to the marine park dinghy/float plane dock and followed the trail up to Cassel Lake. With the waterfall being that warm, the lake was even warmer and really clear. We did a little cliff diving and swam around a bit before heading back to the boat.
As we were getting ready to go to bed it started to rain. First time since we left, not bad for the PNW. It was not a lot of rain, but I went up on deck to just hangout and chill for a bit. It was insanely dark, but the rain drops were hitting the water and causing the bioluminescence to flash.
If you don’t know what bioluminescence is. It is basically, light that is created by a living thing. The thing most of you might know it as is the light that a lighting bug makes. But in this case the light is a light blue color and is created by billions and billions of little cells that hang out in the saltwater. And when they are disturbed, either by a fish swimming, splashing an oar in water, or like tonight the rain hitting the waters surface, they give off a spooky blue glow for a few seconds. It really is one of the coolest things you can witness. It happens more in the summer months than any other time of year. I guess that is due to the water tempature.