well, it’s that time of year again. we are heading south! today was our last day in glacier bay national park/preserve, and my what a beautiful day. i woke up in front of johns hopkins glacier. the sun was sparkling and the ice was a bright, vibrant blue. the contrast between our northbound trip and…
Category: life on a boat
alaska, in a nutshell
i’m back! it’s been over a month since i wrote last — i’m sorry, but you know how life goes. it speeds up just as you are getting used to it and runs you over, leaving you a tangled mess in the road. that pretty much sums up my last month up here in alaska. …
a beautiful morning in glacier bay
this morning, i biked the nine miles from the dock at glacier bay into gustavus, the tiny plane-or-boat-only-accessible town. it was an amazing ride, although i did spend a majority of it watching out for bears and moose (which are apparently worse than bears). the road was straight; just a few turns here and there,…
whales at sunset
whales at sunset. it sounds like a book title. but that was what my night was on tuesday night. we’d had crab night, and the guests were out in the lounge listening to a talk. we were polishing silver and stowing dishes when the boat slowed. this indicates that we’ve seen something of interest –…
south sawyer glacier, tracy arm
a life update
life has been good to me these last few days. our first trip – the long, 12 day cruise from seattle to sitka – ended well. the guests were nice, the weather cooperated, we had whales, bears, wolves, great days to kayak, good glacier calving… what else could you want in a trip to good…
portrait photos
i have since learned a lot about how to handle the histogram, but i really enjoyed taking portraits of my fellow crew.
i’m back! – also known as life in alaska!
it’s been a long time since i wrote. i apologize… my time in kansas city was not what i expected, and i was yearning to come back to the boat. i felt depressed, unable to work, unable to take my dogs on walks for fear of injuring my knee further… it was rough. i slept…
life update
hello hello hello i know i haven’t written in a while, and that’s because i had a pretty big change happen two weeks ago. last i wrote, we were in san carlos taking guests on for the trip back to la paz. i spent those few days in mag bay playing in the sand dunes…
sea lions and whales and hammerheads, oh my
buenos tardes de san jose del cabo. as i write this, we are cruising out of san jose del cabo, which is – big surprise – near cabo san lucas. this is the first trip we take during which we head around the tip of baja to the pacific side. we’ll be anchored in bahia…