Sunrise at Double Island anchorage on Orcas yesterday morning (above: Double Island on the left, Alegria Island on the right). This anchorage is pretty great. It was so still overnight (a little too still, in fact!) Kevin flew his new Mavic Pro drone in the morning and got some gorgeous shots: Alegria Island: Orcas…
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We took the Inspire 1 up this afternoon for some aerial photos. My camera controller was glitching out a little bit, but I managed to take a few nice overhead shots that should give you a good sense of this place: After doing some more work, we decided to go…
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We took the Inspire 1 up two separate times while we were navigating around the floating bits (and, well, building-sized chunks) of ice yesterday. (I pared it down from 100 photos to 10!) Airship, just left of the building-sized iceberg: Airship, top, center: Look how tiny we are!!! So fun…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 The weather finally cleared up a bit earlier this evening so we went out for a walk around "town." (Some history about Ocean Falls here.) The "bar" is apparently to the left: Our buddies, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I spotted one of the policemen returning…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We left Shoal Bay this morning around 8am (after Kevin retrieved our crab traps…which contained two more big male Dungeness) to time getting to Greene Point Rapids and Whirlpool Rapids at favorable times. We were early for Greene Point (oooh, look how scary!)… …in order…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We got up early this morning in Lund and headed up to Nancy's for breakfast (and a couple of blackberry cinnamon rolls to go). Prawn season opened today, so the docks were crowded with prawn traps and buoys being loaded onto fishing boats. We left after…
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Yesterday morning, Cypress Island: We spent Tuesday night at Cypress Head with Sam. Sam now has a drone too and got a nice shot of our two Nordic Tugs tucked away in the cove: Here's Sam on his bow, in his robe, bringing in the drone: We left Cypress and were…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Ford’s Terror is a very steep and narrow fjord 60 miles southeast of Juneau in Alaska’s Inside Passage. You can only enter or exit the fjord at high slack tide when the rapids (and the 2-3 foot waterfall!) have turned calm and there is enough water covering…
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After the Incident at Fury Cove, I convinced Kevin that he couldn't go the rest of our trip droneless, and he eventually caved and ordered the new DJI Inspire 1. We took it out for its maiden flight over at Meyers Chuck the other day. As it takes off and…
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(Posted by Kevin) The quadcopter (the one built with my own loving hands in August last year) had a very bad day at Fury Cove. It was flying along like usual, about a quarter-mile from the boat, probably capturing some beautiful video – when it suddenly plummeted to the ground…
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