On our way to meet our friend Steve for dinner and drinks tonight over at A Town Bistro (great, I'll get to that later), we happened past the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes and this amazing boat: Turns out this is the F/V Blue North, an Alaskan Cod Fishery Vessel. From…
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I was SO looking forward to seeing whales today on our long cruise back to Anacortes. I had a blog post all worked out…I was going to talk about how finding whales in the Salish Sea was easier than finding a herd of tame deer on a tiny little island.…
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We have now hiked every trail on Jones Island — no deer. I thought I saw one when we were coming around the northeast tip of the island, but it was only a leprechaun. However devoid of deer, this half of the island still has lots of moss, mushrooms, and…
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We left Cypress Island around noon today and headed for Jones Island State Park. Here's an eagle we saw on our way over: (The new Nikon D7100 with the 18-300mm lens is KILLER, by the way.) We grabbed one of the three free mooring buoys (one was taken), did some…
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Fossil Bay, Sucia Islands, March 2015
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We worked this morning over at Friday Harbor for a while, and then headed back to Anacortes. We're going to have some work done on the boat this week/next week (haul out, bottom paint, zincs replaced, stuff like that). Sad to say goodbye, but it's just for a short bit.…
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Kevin shot some aerial/quadcopter video of us in Fossil Bay over on Sucia Island the other day and made a short video. The weather wasn't quite as beautiful as as it was for his previous Sucia Island quadcopter video, but this is a different view of the bay on a…
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Fossil Bay on Sucia Island last night at dusk: Sucia Island sky from bed this morning: Fossil Bay, not from bed: In the stateroom up front there are two portholes and one skylight, and I can usually tell by the color of the light if I should get up and…
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I wish everywhere I walked was flanked by this gorgeous fairy land moss and fern: So far in our travels around the San Juan Islands, Sucia Island is our favorite for hiking. Today we hiked two more trails we had not yet hiked: the trail out to Fox Point (not…
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This morning we decided we'd seen enough of Stuart Island (even though we really hadn't) and we headed for Sucia Island. (It's possible we were also thinking about trying to watch House of Cards, and we were getting very poor cellular and data service in Reid Harbor). We headed toward…
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