Today after we finished up with some of the more important work stuff, we left West Bay Resort on Orcas and headed to Stuart Island to check out Prevost Harbor. We figured we wouldn't have good service there so our plan was to just stop for lunch and a hike…
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That's Fossil Bay this morning just before we left. We left this incredibly beautiful place so we could get more reliable internet to do some work this morning. Once we have our new Moovbox internet set up, this will NOT happen again. 🙂 Here's where we are now: West Beach…
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We took the dinghy ashore and did some hiking and exploring around Sucia Island today. First we headed over to Shallow Bay. Great rock formations: This tree looked like it was standing upright (about 8' high) on the shore over at Shallow Bay, but it was covered in barnacles…which made…
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Yesterday afternoon we left Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes and headed out to Sucia Island, just north of Orcas. The weather was gray, but gray in that way that makes the water and the sky all blue and silvery. The cruise was about 2.5 hours and we saw TONS of…
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Yesterday was a day of running errands and doing a little provisioning in Anacortes. The service department won't be starting on Airship's solar panels or its new stove until next week when the parts arrive, so we have the uninterrupted use of the boat this week if we want it…
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Our evening moored at Spencer Spit was great. A cocktail on the top deck, sunset, water, wildlife, trees…it can't get much better. A sailboat was anchored a ways from us, but there were still no other boats at the mooring buoys on this side of the spit. We tried out…
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Friday Harbor was fogged in pretty good this morning, but it had mostly burned off by about 10:00am. Our plan for today was to circle San Juan Island, look for some Orcas, and then find ourselves a new place to stay tonight. Before we left Friday Harbor we headed up the…
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What a gorgeous end to a fantastic day. The sky cleared in the west as the sun set and the contrast of the warm sunlight against the dark gray sky was spectacular. We got out the chairs and moved our operation to the top deck of Airship and watched the…
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This morning we decided to put our new skills to the test (Capt. Jack has great confidence in us) and so at about 10am we left Anacortes and headed toward Friday Harbor on our first ever unsupervised outing. It was a little drizzly when we left but by the time…
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