Elfin Cove .... a beautiful little community with a few year round residents, a number of summer only residents and a "fishing resort".  Being early in the season, we were lucky enough to find dock space and enjoyed a wander around on the extensive boardwalk.

(the HOT LINE to ....???)

 

Clevelands joined us for a week (Wrangle to Sitka) ....

We got to enjoy many pot luck meals together with Piredmus and Daybreak before taking Cam and Nancy into Sitka for their return flight. 

We thoroughly enjoyed Beautiful Sitka ... 

This is a (crazy) restaurant in the process of being opened.  The owner was quite a character .... not sure if it will EVER open ... he has been at it for years !!??

Sunset off the cockpit, in the marina ....

The very important "provisioning"  ... way to go Nanc !!!

There is a bear sanctuary in Sitka, started by a fellow who got tired of the orphaned cubs being shot after loosing their mamas.  It is (or was) illegal to rehabilitate bears so the only way to save them is to raise them in an enclosed habitat.  The sanctuary does its best to emulate a bear's natural environment.