We are off on our second adventure to Alaska the summer of 2024.
July 7th 2023 “The Hills are alive with the sound of music….” Wait, wrong country, but it felt like it. I kept looking for Julie Andrews. Cannery Cove is a beautiful anchorage. There is just enough room for about 5 boats in good holding mud at around 50 feet. We arrived here about 11 am. … Read More “Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay: Best Day Yet!!!” »
July 6th, 2023 We left Petersburg this morning at 9:00 am. Last night we had a dock cocktail hour with several of our friends, Barb and Rob from “Harmony Bay”; John and Jeri from “Katessa”; and new friends who arrived on their 42 Nordic Tug “Noeta.” Marlene and I both commented on how much fun … Read More “Portage Bay, Alaska” »
July 5, 2023 Not much to report today. The 4th of July festivities are over and the town has settled back into a pattern of fishing boats coming and going and continuing great weather. Tomorrow we are off to Portage Bay on Kupreanof Island in Frederick Sound. This is reported to be some of the … Read More “Petersburg: Day Four” »
July 4, 2023 Happy Fourth of July to our friends and family. Petersburg is a quaint town with a great retro vibe to it. It almost feels like you are back in the 50s/60s. The parade today definitely reminded us of times gone by. The townspeople come out to celebrate the occasion with local floats … Read More “Petersburg Day Three: Fourth of July” »
July 3, 2023 This morning Marlene and I spent roughly 2 hours at the face of the Le Conte Bay Glacier. There are experiences in your life you will never forget; lvisiting the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, or walking into Petra. La Conte Glacier was this type of life-changing experience. The … Read More “Petersburg Day Two: La Conte Bay Glacier” »
July 2, 2023 We left Wrangell this morning at 9:00 am. There was a pretty significant minus tide (less than six feet on the other side of the dock) so it was fortuitous that we needed to leave later in the morning to time the Wrangell Narrows correctly. When we left, the depth was back … Read More “Petersburg, Alaska” »
July 1, 2023 This is our last day in Wrangell. We are off to Petersburg tomorrow where we will spend the 4th of July. Today we walked to Petroglyph beach on the edge of town. Petroglyph beach in Wrangell has the highest concentration of petroglyphs in Southeast Alaska. There is a nice boardwalk overlooking the … Read More “Wrangell Alaska: Day Three” »
June 30, 2023 Today was a day to sit back, relax (a day without worrying about wind, waves, and straits), finish a few boat projects which included exchanging the old rusted out windshield wipers for new ones that didn’t fit quite right (enter in MacGyver and wire), and a few cultural events. This morning I … Read More “Wrangell: Day Two” »
June 29, 2023 We arrived in Wrangell around 12:30 today. It was a pleasant 6.5 hour cruise from Meyers Chuck to here save for the littered fields of crab pots throughout Zimovia Strait. It was a two person lookout job to stay clear of them. Most of the pots were outside the channel but a … Read More “Wrangell, Alaska” »
June 28,2023 It was bound to happen, sooner or later. For us, it happened today. For years we have been hearing from our boating friends that it rains “all the time in Alaska”. One fellow tugger woman told me that she never saw a single day without rain the entire time she and her husband … Read More “Meyer’s Chuck: “The Quintessential Alaska Day”” »