Before reaching this islet, turn north and follow the west shore of what is now mainland peninsula approximately 2 miles into Beartrack Cove. Since this passage is exposed at low tide, you may have to wait a short time for the water to return. But it is a pleasant spot, with a long, grassy point jutting out from the west shore to provide possible camping. Millions of mussels color the intertidal zone here. Beartrack Cove is exposed to the sweep of wind coming down Glacier Bay.
Conditions are much less hospitable than among the islands.
But if it is blowing, you can always return to the island group through the passage you just negotiated. Assuming the weather is cooperating, paddle through the passage and on into the cove. As soon as you clear the point of the island on your left, you can see 7 miles north along the far shore of Beartrack Cove to South Sandy Cove, the farthest visible landmark. Three miles closer and to the norhtwest are the Leland Islands, which appear from this perspective to be a single, narrow island. Still farther west are South and North Marble, small islands about the same distance away as Leland, but only visible from here as rounded white domes.