{"id":1141,"date":"2013-02-18T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2012-09-24T23:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T07:08:36","slug":"alston-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Alston Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laredo Inlet is a beautiful place to explore.  It is a bit off the usual north-south cruising route, accessed by the scenic Meyers Passage.  Wildlife viewing, fishing, and great scenery, the area offers enough for a few days of exploration.<\/p>\n<p>If one is to spend a few days, then a couple good anchorages are needed, and there are a few to choose from&#8230;  Bay of Plenty, Fifer Cove and Alston Cove are all good choices.<\/p>\n<p>The chart shows a three fathom bar at the entrance.  It may be a bit shallower, both in and out our depth guage showed just over twenty feet of water under the Nordic Quest&#8217;s keel on a ten foot high tide.  Perhaps we just missed the deeper channel?  Otherwise entry is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Anchor in forty to fifty feet of water at the rear of the cove off the alluvial fan of Blee creek.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;t=h&amp;ll=52.747671,-128.743887&amp;spn=0.020782,0.051413&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;t=h&amp;ll=52.747671,-128.743887&amp;spn=0.020782,0.051413&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laredo Inlet is a beautiful place to explore. It is a bit off the usual north-south cruising route, accessed by the scenic Meyers Passage. Wildlife viewing, fishing, and great scenery, the area offers enough for a few days of exploration. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/?p=1141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[210,190],"tags":[116,93,113,114],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2dWYW-ip","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}