August 19 was a beautiful sunny day again, we kept thinking we maybe should have kept going, but heard on the VHF that it was blowing like crazy north with rain…. so ok, we keep going as we are, in Kashevarof Passage we were greeted by a pod of Humpback whales, they were everywhere, mostly close along the shore, they kept going back and forth, and we figured that they churn up the water for food, we couldnt come too close, so many reefs there, but we watched them for a long time, several loners swam here and there. At Mabel Island we turned the engine off, it was dead calm, and Bert did some fishing, while i watched for the whales. They never did come very close, but when they come up to breathe, a big pod of them, its looks wonderful. We were heading to Coffman Cove as we were told that there was a lot of wildlife there, bears,whales,wolves, so we wanted to anchor there.