The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-07-23
SENTINEL RECEIVES
 INTERESTING LETTER
 FROM TIE SHUMWAYS

| I A. Shumway who left here July
 for Douglas in fourteen-foot
 open boat propelled by an Elto
 out soard motor, will be interested | Tn the fo3 wing letter written b..
 the Shumways at Cape Fanshaw on
 July and received by the Sentinel
 last Saturday:
 So many of you kind Wran- l gell people have been concerned
 about our trip that We thought you
 might be interested in some of the things we have been doing.
 | We reached Ideal Cove, just | across from Le Conte, about six l o'clock of the day We left Wrangen
 After chatting awhile with the crab
 man. not crabby man. We made | camp in the little cove just beyond | Ideal. The next morning We went l over to Camp Island. We surely | had an interesting camp site on this | island. We could look down the [ bay at the glaciers and jagged mountain peaks while the icebergs
 played hide and seek about our
 camp door. It was most interesting | 10 Us to watch tho effect of the 1 tides upon the bergs. We hiked over the sand reefs during low tide and took a number of pictures. but decided not to go into the bay. Perhaps more experienced naviga- tors might have thought it safe. but the entire mouth of the bay during both high and low tides was simply jam of ice. Many people at Peters burg told us it was not safe to go in just now as the bay mouth had been unusually filled with ice for some time. It rained most of the night while We were at Camp Isl- and and the next morning we went in drizzling rain to Petersburg We had very comfortable room in Petersburg and there. (not in the room but in Petersburg). we spent the glorious Fourth. And on Sun day We were lazy so We wrote let tersters, read. and looked over the High School building
 Monday was a glorious day. We left about four in the morning and crossed over to Thomas Bay. This is such beautiful bay! We went around Ruth Island and decided 10 have breakfast at the cascades just back of Spray Island. A little [. s. Government boat was also break fasting at the same place and We met a lively family from New York who was also seeing some of the AL aska glaciers for the first time We camped around by Baird glacier in Scenery cove Surely this was picturesque camp site and to com pare a safe old dead glacier like Baird with Le Conte was most in eresting to us.
 Tho next morning, Tuesday, We
 = about 2:45 to take advantage
 he morning calms. We decided
 'hnf ! Fanshaw if possible for
 ' -'a Warn q few clouds appearing. This is the longest continuous run
 hare made and this was only
 '"Ne thirty-four miles. It was a
 "'1e rough around some of the points near Fanshaw, for We had -o 20 away out beyond so many fish traps and the breeze was be ginning 10 blow up. My what a joy to reach the quiet waters of Cleveland Passage after coming around Fanshaw, And here we are now in a little cannery cottage be- longing to a certain MT. John Gill. The cannery has not been running for several years. We pat ourselves constantly on the back for We had not been in more than an hour un- til a sou easter came up and it has been raining constantly. Boats have been seeking shelter for twenty-four hours But we have all the com forts of home including a vase Of roses in the window and a bowl of pansies on our table. not to mention a spring bed and plenty of straw berries. And here we shall stay un- til the storm passes!
 Our trip has been ideal in spite of the rains. for we have been so comfortable We have not been bothered with mosquitoes at all. The first night at idal Cove there were a very few. Since then We have scarcely seen one. People have been so nice to us. Just a few minutes ago man who lives in Juneau and who is also storm staid, came in to offer us supplies 1T We were in any danger of running short But we are not! Our little Ollie (Eltol never offers complaint except when he wants drink. He runs through rain, breakers and kelp. Yesterday we came up as the tide was ebbing. We had very low tide and so as we got near Fan shaw We had either to go away out where the swells and waves were large or through kelp. We went through kelp and Ollie never once stopped to complain. Once he threw himself in reverse to try to Kick free, but that was all. We do not mean to seem to be outboard motor advertisers. but somehow those lit tie fellows seem to be almost hu- man.
 And lastly-when the winds come and the floods descend do not worry about us. Everything we possess has been wet and dried several times since we left. everything but our ardour, it has not yet been dampen- ed.
 Sincerely,