Sunrise was at 7:28 am, which would have been nice to see during our early morning departure from Atka village, but we were enveloped in a very dense fog. The fog was so thick we used radar to leave the anchorage. We are heading east, well more like northeast. The […]
Andreanof Islands
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We’ve had an extremely long day to make only 4 miles good to Dutch Harbor. If we could do it all over again we would have stayed where we were anchored. Hiked the trail to town, maybe organized fuel delivery, and probably had a beach picnic on yet again another […]
We woke to a beautiful sunny day, light east winds, and calm seas. We headed to Korovin Bay to fish for halibut, but instead caught the mother load of pacific cod. We could hardly get our lure to the seafloor and had two hooked. The average size was around 20 […]
Squash zone. A squash zone is exactly as it sounds, we are smooched between a high pressure system and a low pressure system. As you can imagine the winds have been high (35-45 knots) and our anchorage a bit bumpy from the white caps; although we are anchored less than […]
Peeling and fleshing the Caribou took until 2 am, so we were exhausted! Bluefox Bay Atka is open to the Bearing Sea so swell kept rocking us back and forth through the night. We woke late this morning to sunshine and calm water and we moved anchorages. The 48 hour […]
Yesterday evening after one of Sara’s boots proved shorter then the water depth, Wade considered remaining on the boat with her and hunting more the next morning. But with the high winds in the next day’s forecast, Wade decided to check out an additional bay a couple miles away, so […]
Today we motored in calm winds to Bluefox Bay, not to be confused with Kodiak’s Bluefox Bay on Afognak Island, we are still exploring Atka Island. We were hoping to motor close to shore so we could scout out other bays and to search for Caribou; however, we woke to […]
It has been two days of rain and winds of 30 knots where we have been anchored and we started to wonder of our decision to sail so far west to Atka. But today the wind moderated, we had intermittent sunshine, and no rain. We woke early knowing and hoping […]
The day started off sunny with blue skies, and as we approached Atka we could see Korovin Volcano rising 4,851.7 feet. The volcano is extinct and looked stunning in the glowing sunrise. As we sailed closer to our anchorage the fog and rain moved in. We thought to pick a […]
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