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Gwaii Haanas: Hlk’yah G̱awG̱a & G̱andll K’in Gwaay.yaay (2023 July)
Sticking to my journal as a guide, we continue south to other parts of Gwaii Haanas Park including the rest of the Watchman sites. The first would be Hlk’yah G̱awG̱a (Windy Bay) where a recently raised legacy pole stands. The island, Tllga Kun Gwaayaay (Lyell Island) also houses the site of a very important protest…
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Alaska 54° 42.44N, Turning South
Lax Kw’alaams slang shat us to the Alaskan border on July 16th, 2023. We had been heading north from Friday Harbor since May 6th. The border would be our turn around point, as the Alaskan cruising grounds deserve much more than the 1 week we could give it. One day……… Our journey so far has
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Heading North, Lax Kw’Alaams
Out of Prince Rupert channel we commenced to sail. Being that we were going north, we were going up wind, but in the sun and being Trevor’s first sail it was a good one. With Zoe and Heather handling Karma, Trevor whipped up some delicious sandwiches and we watched the sunny scenery as we traveled
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Prince Rupert
The northern most town of significance on the BC Coast, Prince Rupert is a large shipping port and cruise ship stop for huge vessels coming from Japan or chapparoning tourists to and from Alaska. This was also the point we were originally going to drop of Zoe, that was until about a day or two
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Granville Channel
This is what I was picturing before setting off when people said, “Inside Passage”. Way the heck up north, passing between 1000 meter cliffs on either side in a mile wide channel in flat calm water. We entered the channel under spinnaker which was fun as always for the 10 minutes the wind lasted then
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Campania Island
Still unsure how to pronounce this as we have heard a myriad of options, Campania Island is a secret paradise bestowed upon us with trust by a few different people including Qualia, Evan of SV Amaryllis, and SV Manna. Quite a ways up the BC Central Coast, it is past the point most Central Coast
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Kids Boat Convoy for Bella Bella
“It isn’t too common you find people out at your age doing this….”, we’ve heard from pretty much everyone our senior as we have bounced from rock to rock up and down the West Coast of North America. It seems almost as if the more people tell us that the more we find ways to
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“The right size for a yacht is large enough to have 6 onboard for cocktails, 4 onboard for dinner, and 2 onboard to sleep” – William Stuart Herreshoff
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