October 19th to 20th The temperature has finally dropped to a chilling 36 and 38 degrees. Yesterday, we went deer hunting aka hiking because we do not see any deer. The views are stunning with the mountain tops having a nice cover of snow. Last night just as we were […]
Kodiak Island
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October 17th Yesterday we moved anchorages because the wind was turning from west to north then northeast and 30 knots. The Kodiak fjords can be a bit of a wind tunnel but moving to the north side of the bay protected us very well from wind and waves. We, or […]
October 16th More and more frequently when we wake in the morning we experience sinus pressure, sometimes stuffy noises, and sometimes even a small headache. We didn’t think anything of it and would continue about our day. During a discussion with one of the lovely St. Paul Marina office ladies, […]
We post updates to our WordPress website and Facebook using a Jetpack plugin Post-By-Email feature. Yesterday as we arrived in Kodiak City we realized the plugin magically disconnected, so none of our post were reaching our website. Our apologies for flooding post from the last week. While in Seal Bay […]
We finally left St. Paul Harbor for Geographic Harbor today. To break up the trip we stopped for the night at an abandoned town on Afognak Island called Litnik. As we pulled in the bay we spotted several otters, harbor seals, and jelly fish. We really wanted to go fishing […]
We arrived at St. Paul Marina Kodiak Island just in time to miss the heavy winds. The following day we searched the town on foot in the pouring rain for a new water pump for our reverse air conditioning (boat heater) to no avail, so we have a new pump […]
Around 8 am two days ago we realized we had 33 miles to Three Saints Bay and 99 miles to Kodiak City and we would not make Kodiak City during daylight. We did not want to spend a third night sailing, so we decided to stop and anchor. Navigating through […]
Another Low is approaching, but this one is the strongest we have seen thus far in Alaska. It will be 3 to 4 days before it possibly reaches us, but the winds show to definitely be in the 50 knot range when it does. Not knowing how long it might […]