Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 This is a story about a bus ride. Here’s us today: coffee, work, work, work, breakfast, more work, go to the grocery store, back to the boat, more work, watch cruise ships leave, more work. Later we’re going to have dinner over at the Bar…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 Last night's Prince Rupert view from Airship: We set our alarm for 4am this morning to check the 4am weather and forecasted conditions for Dixon Entrance to make the final call about whether to go or wait. At Dixon Entrance East, waves were 1-2 meters.…
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Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 5:00am at Port McNeill Current Weather:Queen Charlotte Strait: Wind lightQueen Charlotte Sound: Wind lightCentral Coast from McInnes Island to Pine Island: Wind light. Seas 1 metre or lessWest Sea Otter Buoy: Waves 0.7 metres at 15 seconds. Wind WSW 6 gusting to 8All the way…
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I haven't posted in a few days (okay, over a week) because we've just been doing a bunch of relatively boring stuff as we get ready to head north to SE Alaska next week. We were at home for a couple weeks, where I squeezed in about eight photo shoots…
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I forgot to show you this photo of a black bear sow and cub that I took when we were transiting from Lowe Inlet to Khutze Inlet in BC, because that was also the day of a zillion bubble feeding humpbacks, so it got left behind. Poor bears. I'm trying…
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Airship Goes to Alaska (and BC) Prince Rupert (AK) — Lowe Inlet (BC) — Khutze Inlet (BC) — Jackson Passage (BC) — Shearwater (BC) Sunday was a 58 mile day and a good chunk of it was in Grenville Channel. Grenville Channel is a 42-mile long narrow channel that locals…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Early morning in Foggy Bay, AK: We got up early yesterday morning (even though we stayed up pretty late the night before watching the Northern Lights) and decided to get this whole Dixon Entrance thing behind us. It was super calm for most of our cruise…
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Airship Goes to Alaska I'm just gonna start with this: "Holy crap it's so amazing!!!" Okay now, continue reading. There will be more candy later. Downtown Ketchikan from the water: On Thursday morning we ran a few errands in Ketchikan (more Ray Troll shirts for friends, picking up some tax docs…
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Airship Goes to Alaska That is straight outta the camera, no filters whatsoever. Incredible, isn't it? I couldn't make this sunset look real in Photoshop no matter how hard I tried. It was spectacular. Sure glad those cruise ships left! This is our view (same direction) this morning: The cruise…
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Airship Goes to Alaska Last night's sunset in Kasaan: We left Kasaan early this morning and headed toward Ketchikan. The weather was beautiful. As we got most of the way across Clarence Strait, we started seeing humpbacks in the distance, off to our right. Pretty soon I heard a very…
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