To whomever anonymously paid for our drinks tonight at Downriggers in Friday Harbor with the “Thank you for the blog” message: Thank YOU SO MUCH. That was such a sweet thing to do and we only wish we knew who you were. Please, if you see us again, come say hello. You’re…
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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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We left Roche Harbor yesterday morning and headed around the back side of San Juan Island to look for orcas. (Spoiler: no orcas.) But wow what a gorgeous sky! Kevin worked while I drove the boat and kept an eye out for cetaceans. It was a pretty chill cruise the…
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This post will be all about whales. I'll do another post where I tell you all the other cool things about our cruise from Port Townsend north to Stuart Island, but not in this post. This post is the post with all the whale photos. Yesterday in the middle of…
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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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This was the sunrise yesterday morning from our anchorage in Griffin Bay (off of San Juan Island): I know, I was awake for another sunrise. It's not that weird though, since sunrise was at 7:54am yesterday. Right behind us, the moon was slowly setting. Seriously, these were taken within minutes…
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A couple months back while we were looking at boats and trying to zero in on which might be right for us, one of the things we did was get a tour of the Nordic Tug factory in Burlington, Washington. These are very well-made boats (as are the American Tugs,…
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On Saturday we decided to see if the new bikes would fit nicely in the Cirrus, so we planned a flight up to Friday Harbor for lunch and a ride. This photo on takeoff is blurry because my camera focused on a dead bug on the windshield instead of the…
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