McHenry Bay

 We have been staying I'm McHenry Bay. It provides better protection from the south than Mosman bay. We have to commute to Mosman to film every day it's about 8 miles to where we go.

 They hired a yacht for 6 of the crew to sleep on. The rest take sea planes back and forth to Ketchikan everyday.  Russell and I are still staying on our boats. He's on Katos and I'm on Sea Duck. We probably have it best.


Here you can see McHenry harbor and our route to Mosman. The squiggly lines down south was getting footage of integrity in a storm. 


Sea Duck rafted up to silver lady, she is the yacht they hired to be a floating hotel for film crew.


Sea Duck rafted to Katos rafted to integrity watching film crew commute to Ketchikan by sea plane via skiff via van to hotel. And you thought your commute to work was hard!


The cove behind Mosman Island during low Tide. I'm driving the skiff back to Katos and Sea Duck.


Our route in the skiff to the cove behind Mosman. There are rocks everywhere and the huge tides don't help. Once we finally went in during low Tide we know where all the rocks are. As you can see on the chart it is poorly charted.


We had to take the integrity out and get some rough weather video so we went out in Clarence Strait. It wasn't that bad maybe 4 footers but they were really close so it looks worse than it was. They were able to get the shots they needed. 

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