Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 14 We slept in, made breakfast, showered, and departed Rescue Bay at a leisurely 10am. Sea Raven leads the flotilla: This weather!! We headed up Mathieson Channel and made a left turn into Kynoch Inlet, then over to Kynoch Falls where we oooh’d and…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 13 Today was a 34 mile passage from Shearwater to Rescue Bay. We left Shearwater at 8am and went through Perceval Narrows (20 miles away) at slack tide. Once again the morning started out gray with low clouds and ended up warm and sunny.…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Days 11-12 We left Ocean Falls on Wednesday morning and headed for Shearwater, about 20nm away. Passing through Gunboat Passage: Most mornings it starts out gray and misty and then is sunny by early afternoon. This day was no different. Arriving at Shearwater: Our new…
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Yesterday afternoon we met up with "Nearly Normal Norman" over at his Ocean Falls "museum" that he was kind enough to open it up for us to tour. Norman, giving us a little history of Ocean Falls: He even picked some wildflowers to gussy up the place: Norman's museum is…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 10 We never saw the grizzlies at Fury Cove (dangit), and we departed at 7am for another long cruise to Ocean Falls (58 nautical miles). We saw humpback whales in Fitz Hugh Sound three different times (Airship seems to be the whale-spotting boat). The…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 9 We left Port McNeill this morning at 5am (that means the alarm went off at 4am!) We had a 60 mile day and our first exposure to open ocean as we exited Queen Charlotte Strait and crossed Cape Caution (about a mile offshore).…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 8 We said goodbye to Pierre this morning at 8am and headed for Port McNeill. The waters were calm, the sky was gray, and it was a beautiful foggy/misty cruise over to the North Island Marina. This is our last stop before crossing Cape…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 7 This morning at Port Harvey, George was down on the dock delivering fresh homemade cinnamon rolls before we headed out: How great is this? We've got to stop back by here on our way south. Next stop: Pierre's at Echo Bay. We headed…
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Here's how far we've come so far (different color for each travel day): This afternoon when I pulled up one of our crab traps, I found a very strange thing. There was a fish attached to the outside of the crab trap. He looked as if he had been, um,…
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Airship Goes to Alaska – Day 6 Wow, 5am is really early! We were scheduled to leave Blind Channel at 5:45am sharp, meaning off the docks at 5:30am and waiting in the channel at 5:45am, so the alarm went off at 5am and we made quick cappuccinos and were casting…
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