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 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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Here are a couple of snaps I took yesterday in the marina. It was quite rainy, so I spent most of the day working and catching up on things requiring the internets (while Kevin finished up his conference in San Francisco), but I did take a break to go pick…
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Late this morning after a bunch of work, I headed down to Saxman Village to check out some more Tlinget, Haida, and Tsimshian totem art. I just did the $5 grounds ticket and not the $35 tour guide tour, so I didn't get to learn which totems were which tribes…
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Yesterday it rained ALL DAY. Okay, I exaggerate. It stopped for about a half hour once at about 5pm. I worked most of the day from the boat, and then in the afternoon when it was just drizzling (and not raining sideways anymore), I walked up to Tongass and exchanged…
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This morning we were on the boat working when we noticed more than the usual number of eagles flying around us. Adults and juveniles flying right past the windows, making their loud eagle sounds. There were maybe…oh, I dunno, FIFTY of them!! In this photo above (taken from the back…
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The weather improved quite a bit today, and after a whole lot of work in the morning we caught the free shuttle bus downtown for more exploring. It was late enough and the cruise ships were leaving early enough today that it wasn't super crowded either. Bonus! We met Margaret…
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We've got some really rowdy neighbors here at the Bar Harbor marina in Ketchikan! Yesterday we worked all morning and then headed up to nearby Tongass Trading to spend a few boat dollars. We picked up an Anchor Buddy and two small anchors for the dinghy, a new gas can…
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