A wild and scenic fair weather anchorage with spectacular views across to the Misty Fjords National Wilderness area.

The Douglass and Douglass pilot suggests anchoring in the cove immediately to the west of Wart Point. However the depths in the cove don’t get less than 30m until you are very close to the shore, so unless there is a consistent wind blowing from a southerly direction, the only any you could safely anchor in this cove is by taking a line ashore or laying a kedge to stop you swinging.

The mooring buoy mentioned in the Douglass and Douglass pilot and shown on Navionics charts was not present when we visited in 2018, and neither was the Parks maintained pontoon which the pilot suggests exists in this cove.

The central part of the cove is too deep for anchoring but we anchored in the SW corner of the Bay in around 20 metres just off the mudbanks at the mouth of Manzanita Creek. The soundings on the Navionics charts are inaccurate as we dropped our anchor in 20m of water in a spot that according to the chart only had 0.9m.

A current seems to flow in a clockwise direction around Manzanita Bay which counterintuitively sets you into the mouth of the Creek and towards the surrounding mud flats. This needs to be taken into account when assessing swinging circles in calm winds.