Category: Canada
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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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Gwaii Haanas: K’uuna Llnagaay & T’aanuu Llnagaay (2023 July)
We have ventured to the past! Currently sitting by oil light in a little town called Onset, Massachusettes on our new boat, we decided to catch up our old timeline from the West Coast. We had many adventures around British Columbia, the last blog we did described our time in Daajing Giids. The next few…
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Gulf of Maine: Almost like we planned it
The Gulf of Maine is the body of water south of the Bay of Fundy, sandwiched between Nova Scotia and Cape Cod in MA. If you don’t know of the Fundy, you should know that the tides are quite large. This can create exciting waves near the entrance and the tip of the Scotia; if…
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Daajing Giids, Haida Gwaii
Helloooooo Haida Gwaii! While poking around in the Southern Gulf Islands, we traced the BC (British Columbia) ferries and saw that they connected to a group of islands we didn’t know existed. Sailors mentioned these islands with mystical eyes. We grew itchy to go as we learned more about the Haida and how they canoed…
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Crossing the *Hectic* Strait
whales fish banjo Are the words I wrote when drafting this over a year ago. After enjoying the ridiculous water park in the small village of Lax Kw’alaams, plunging in Alaskan waters, and being eaten alive by aggressive horse flies in the Dundas Islands, we started south. For the first time since setting off early…
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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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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…
Sailing Vessel Karma 