We heard it in Valdez, we heard it in Sitka, and again in Petersburg. This year is a tough year for salmon. Even more strange this year the fish are still in the ocean and haven’t made it in to spawn. Frank gave us the best of advice on lures […]
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Yesterday we moored in Petersburg to hopefully find parts for the outboard. Sadly the parts we replaced didn’t fix the issue so we bought oars to match the vintage of the vessel. While Sara and Wade waited for Justin to finish transferring fuel and preparing the boat today they met […]
We had an amazing time at the warm springs and enjoyed the prefect mix between hot springs and cold waterfall water. We got all cleaned up and raised our inner body temperature. Sara and Wade took one last dip before heading out as Justin and Jeff picked up the crab […]
Another not so comfortable cruising feature of Fishing Vessel “Mighty” McClure Bay are the lack of showers. Not to say the solar showers are really that bad, but considering Alaska during the rainy season isn’t really known for the rays. We appreciate Justin for boiling water and mixing it with […]
We left Sitka for the east side of Baranoff Island to begin our journey through the inside passage of southeast Alaska. We timed the Sergus Channel perfectly at slack tide so we had no troubles transiting the very narrow channel. We found ourselves at Rodman Bay and got busy getting […]
For our normal followers you know it is not like us to miss a noon report at sea. This is our first noon report we have ever missed sending! Yesterday was so busy. One thing after another. We had two alternator belts break during the night, one about four hours […]
We rounded buoy four to point our bow at the town of Kodiak. Bitter sweet to be back as we never want the cruising to end, but as last year we did not visit family for the holidays so this year we thought we’d fly out. Cheers, Sara and Wade
November 8th How can this be? We have enjoyed six sunny days out of each week since leaving Kodiak Town, even our high wind days have been mainly sunny. We have been told that the weather depends on where you are on the island, but we hope Kodiak Town is […]
November 1st For novice hunters, as Sara, glassing or scoping is a term when the hunter uses binoculars, the scope of a gun, or another high power lens (thanks again to Marj for the awesome super zoom camera lens) to search the area for animals. Wade has been bummed at […]
October 28th We had a lovely visit in Larsen’s Bay. The town is very small. We walked the whole two-miles of town. We were told during summer seasons the Kodiak Lodge Resort is open, and we can only GUESS this is where visitors can get access to public or paid […]
October 26th The sun does not seem to rise above the mountains until late so we hibernate like bears. We wanted to take advantage of good morning weather (54 degrees) and move south before the predicted strong southerly winds were upon us. Today we woke up at the crack of […]
October 24th We missed the little window we had to move south to Larson’s Bay, so we decided to snuggle into East Arm. We were able to pull weather a few days ago and during our transit we heard there is a gale coming from the south in the next […]
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