Tag: inside passage
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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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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…
Sailing Vessel Karma 