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2023 / #8 Turning Around

2023 / #8 Turning Around

Monday, July 10. The wind and waves in Principe Channel continued all day. From our sheltered position in Colby Bay they looked the same as the day before, that is, unpleasantly boisterous, so we decided to stay where we were for another day. A free day means boat...

Welcome to Our New Website!

Welcome to Our New Website!

May 2023 We travel to many remote places but, at last, we expect to have reliable internet on our travels, thanks to the new Starlink setup we just installed. It now makes sense to send out our posts through a website instead of directly through email, which was...

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2022 / #13 Back to Shilshole

Monday, September 26 Last night we had a spectacular sunset with wide open views to the west and northwest followed by wonderful phosphorescence in the water, the best of the trip.  Sidney Spit definitely had its high points. The boat traffic, and consequently the...

2022 / #12 Gulf Islands

Thursday, September 22 I just happened to be up and saw the sunrise with waning crescent moon. Shortly after breakfast the wind started picking up and blew right into our little bay.  It’s a good thing we were planning on leaving.  We checked out another bay right...

2022 / #11 Strait of Georgia

Sunday, September 18 Last night at bedtime we went on deck to look at the stars and saw a straight line of lights, a dozen or more, rise in the vicinity of Arcturus and slowly follow each other across the northern sky, each of them vanishing in turn in the area of...

2022 / #10 Desolation Sound

Wednesday, September 14 Since the full moon’s conjunction with Jupiter the evening skies have been cloud-free and I’ve watched the waning moon rise later and smaller each night as if slowly being consumed by its endless and futile pursuit of the king of the...

2022 / #9 Discovery Islands

Saturday, September 10 Fog rolled into the bay just after dinner yesterday and by sunset the sky was completely obscured - no sun, no moon, no stars.  But it was calm so we had a delightful night.  By 7 am the visibility in the bay was down to 100 yards so we went...

2022 / #8 Port McNeill to Broughtons

Tuesday, September 6 We were tempted to stay another day but there really isn’t much to do in Port McNell.  The main diversion is to take the ferry to either Sointula or Alert Bay and be a tourist.  But we decided against it so after fixing, I hope, a minor...

2022 / #7 Exiting Nakwakto

Friday, September 2 During the night the wind started to blow over the gap to the South and the fog formed but left the water level clear.  Morning certainly wasn’t as picture perfect as the night before had been.  But we were in no hurry and had a delightful...

2022 / #6 Entering Nakwakto Rapids

Monday, August 29 Yesterday it rained all afternoon, evening and night in Allison Harbour so we never left the boat.  Late in the day two other boats came in and anchored.  They didn’t follow us in the morning so they must be going somewhere else.  One of them, a...

2022 / #5 Queen Charlotte Strait

Thursday, August 25 Being plugged into shore power at the dock provides for a number of indulgences that we don’t allow ourselves when we are limited to the ship’s batteries or don’t want the noise of the generator.  Last night was movie night - fresh baked...

2022 / #4 Broughton Islands

Sunday, August 21 Today we decided to stay put and enjoy the Warren Islands.  There isn’t much to kayak to and the wind picks up around 3:00 but it’s the site of a fairly recent logging operation which has finished and closed up.  This leaves the roads so we...

2022 / #3 Johnstone Strait

Wednesday, August 17 Another calm night with a bright moon led to a calm, sunny, warm morning.  Clearly it was going to be a hot day.  We wanted to go through Surge Narrows to Octopus Islands but needed a period of slack water.  We were too far away to make the...

Rowing to meet friends

2022 / #2 Gulf Islands

Saturday, August 13 Saturday in August in the Gulf Islands means - lots of boats.  We left Sidney and headed North, deciding to anchor in James Bay on Prevost Island.  James is open to the North and has a ferry that crosses its entrance but in spite of that it is...

Anchored at Kala Point

2022 / #1 Leaving Puget Sound

Wed, August 10, 2022 We are finally away from the dock.  We hauled the boat out of the water in early May for some fresh bottom paint but problems were found with the propeller shaft and then one problem followed another until we managed to get the boat back in the...