It’s been quite rainy the past couple days, and we’ve had a lack of wildlife, so not a ton of photos to show so far. We had a quiet night in Portage Bay, then continued on down Frederick Sound toward Petersburg. We planned a long day today — 60nm or so — from Portage Bay, past Petersburg and down Wrangell Narrows, across Sumner Strait to Exchange Cove. As long as … Read more
Kevin and I flew home for a few days for some family business, then returned to Juneau on the fourth of July. But we were so tired that we slept through the midnight fireworks completely. Oh well. On Sunday we had a down day…did some shopping, met friends Dan and Eileen for dinner, and thought about coming up with a rough plan for our route home (but still haven’t yet…I … Read more
This morning we had another present on our anchor to deal with before we could leave our beautiful Honeydew Cove. All the prettiest spots seem to come with kelp! All the finger-crossing and whale-dancing we did this morning to conjure the whales today worked!! There were SO many whales out in Frederick Sound after we rounded Pinta Point. Several large groups…some breaching and some tail-slapping and fin-slapping…it was hard to … Read more
We had a gorgeous, calm cruise from Takatz Bay, across Chatham Strait and over to Honeydew today! Spotted a few whale spouts in the distance, but other than that, just blue skies and puffy clouds. As we were approaching Kuiu Island and Keku Strait, we could see fog ahead. Also, check out this crazy sky! We got into some thick fog and thought our fun was over as we neared … Read more
We left Scenery Cove around 6am for the 50nm cruise up to Pybus Bay. Water was flat calm and the scenery was majestic. Kevin put the 360 Cam down at the bow and got some killer footage of the porpoises…he wins: We spotted a handful of humpback spouts ahead between Pybus Bay and the Brothers Islands, and Carrie on IF got some nice shots of a mama and a … Read more
We had a nice quiet stay in Portage Bay. We didn’t even put the dinghy down…we did some work, played some music, worked on art…and did a little boat clean up to get ready for another guest! Friends Brian and Allie on Knot to Worry came into Portage on our second day, and this morning before we left Brian sent us this cool photo he took of Airship the night … Read more
**Note: There are no non-whale photos in this post. Not one.** We left our beautiful spot this morning and headed out into Frederick Sound assuming we’d see more whales, which we did. I got this cool shot of a nice white fluke, and our friend Andrea had an ID super quick for me (see photo caption). The further we went, the more whales we saw…HUGE groups of them together! We … Read more
We left Cannery Cove on Tuesday morning after pulling the crab pots (2 keepers) and headed out into Frederick Sound. Very little wind and quite nice besides the rain. As we neared Cape Fanshaw we noticed another boat that had been hanging out over there for an hour or so, and since it’s a popular spot with the whales, we adjusted course to veer a little closer, just in case. … Read more