This must be a real vacation for Sara because she has not had to cook in two days (well maybe breakfast), but no seriously! Wade gets the triple C award (which is better than a three star Michelin rating). As normally a C would be an average grade, but here […]
Shumagin Islands
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Dawn seems to come later and later. Sunrise today was 8:42 am. We laid in bed and watched a little rays enter through the skylights as we slowly started to wake up. To our surprise, outside we heard a whiney outboard go by us. Sara made a joke to Wade […]
Or perhaps instead this blog post could be entitled Moo-burg (like hamburger) or Moo Town, Cow Town, well you may be getting the idea that there are cows around our anchorage this evening. Yes, we have struck beef, not gold, in this anchorage outside an abandoned gold mining town that […]
Foggy, rainy, and windy this morning. We didn’t even feel like going to shore for a stroll on the beach. Last night before going to bed we noticed our alternator must have stopped charging the batteries while we were underway because shortly after we were anchored our batteries were low […]
Yesterday we lost pressure to our fresh water lines. We checked the head and galley faucets nothing was leaking. We switched water tanks thinking maybe one of the water tanks had a vacuum, but still the pressure was lost. We would flip on and off the breaker to the water […]
We pulled up anchor from Captain’s Harbor and arrived in King Cove. We were greeted with AT&T reception where Sara learned the loss of one of her greatest Navy friend’s passing away too young. Today we honor Timothy Harris as he was a wonderful person and always a good friend […]
Yesterday we deployed our subsistence gill net for the first time. If you remember we got it for free from Mike in Seward when we drove from Key West to Kodiak last year. We have carried the net this far and finally set it to catch salmon. When we were […]
We awoke this morning to what seemed to be a bright and sunny day, but going outside revealed that we were surrounded by fog. It seemed so unusual that it could be so bright out while at the same time being socked in by fog. Sara flew her drone above […]
So this is a first! We normally don’t anchor at midnight, but today was a busy day. Someone who shall not be named decided to sleep in until 10 am. We won’t judge, but our day got a late start. We first dropped the dingy and went to shore to […]
We had a wonderful 4th of July celebration in the village of Sand Point. We went into town and everyone was so welcoming and invited us to their homes for dinner. We declined primarily because we had previously prepared a crab dinner feast on the boat. We have two crab […]
According to regulations we hit our daily fishing limit on Black Rockfish. Sara was on fire, each time her lure sank to the bottom she felt a tug then another tug, and pulled up two big Black Rockfish. The average age for Black Rockfish is 15 to 75 years old […]
We made it! Today around noon we pulled into Fox Hole Inlet and anchored. The anchorage approach is straight forward with a wide channel and easy anchoring. Upon arrival we dropped our bigger crab trap that had really stinky Black Rockfish bones from before we left Kodiak, yummy, at least […]