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Airship to Alaska | Day 6 | Shoal Bay to Port Harvey, BC

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 to Alaska | Day 5 | Squirrel Cove to Shoal Bay BC

Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We got up early (5:30am!) to make the 3 hour cruise up to Dent Rapids. Looks like it’s going to be another gorgeous day. After we’d woken up a bit, I cooked some breakfast for us (bacon and eggs underway, woohoo!) and we made it…

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Airship to Alaska | Day 4 | Lund to Squirrel Cove

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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Airship to Alaska | Day 3 | Newcastle Island to Lund, BC

Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 Airship at dusk, last night at our Newcastle Island moorage (with Nanaimo in the background): We left Newcastle Island this morning around 8am. We originally thought we'd head up the east side of Vancouver Island to Comox, but the weather was so beautiful and the…

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Airship to Alaska | Day 2 | Roche Harbor to Newcastle Island, BC

Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 We left Roche Harbor this morning after a lovely evening with near perfect weather. Check out the light on the chapel last night!   At sunset, the Roche Harbor Color Guard does a flag ceremony where they take down the flags (the Washington State flag,…

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Airship to Alaska | Day 1 | Anacortes to Roche Harbor

Airship Goes to Alaska 2016 – Here we go again!  We were finished with all of our boat projects and provisioning a little sooner than we expected, so we decided to head out a couple days early. We left Cap Sante in Anacortes and cruised over to Roche Harbor on San…

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