First and foremost, we made it through the BIG lift lock at Peterbourgh!! After all the anticipation and nervousness, it was actually quite an easy and comfortable lock… as locks go! This one is different because instead of a single lock chamber filling with water (or emptying water out), the lock has two chambers, one […]
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Peterbourgh to Stony Lake
Good deeds good people
Protecting the marine environment in SE Asia is extremely challenging. Culturaldifferences, years of institutionalized abuse, fishing rights, and areas ofpoverty fed only by subsistence fishing all make for threats to world under thesea.
In this deser…
Traveling the Trent Severn Waterway I
We’ve figured out how to upload pix with a less than stellar internet connection but haven’t solved the video issues….yet! The pictures in this hot-linked Flickr set entitled Trent Severn Waterway 1 highlight more sights along the first segment of the Trent Severn Waterway… through lock 19 of 45! Most of the journey thus far has […]
Sitka Interlude Part 2
June 16, 2012Arriving back in Sitka we were contacted by Alex Benson and found out that the Cypress String Quartet, who played both opening night and at the Larkspur Café on Wednesday, had taken us up on our offer to take them fishing, so at 0700 on S…
Living the Dream!!
“You are really ‘Living the dream…’” has been the universal response when we tell Canadians we meet what we are doing, where we’ve been, and where we are going. And they are absolutely right!! After a delightfully smooth and uneventful crossing of Lake Ontario from Oswego NY to Kingston, ON, we dutifully checked in with […]
Dive Downbelow
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Old Dog NewTricks
So after putting it off for some time all the stars aligned and the opportunity to take advanced diving classes appeared. I have been diving for 30 years, often in the company of expertly trained divers yet never took anything past the Advan…
#25 – The Sitka Music Festival
Just your typical Alaskan fishermen, right? Not really. Instead of a king salmon, musicians Tom Stone and Ethan Filner are way more comfortable holding and playing a 1700’s era violin or viola. So how did these and other world class mu…
#25 – The Sitka Music Festival
Just your typical Alaskan fishermen, right? Not really. Instead of a king salmon, musicians Tom Stone and Ethan Filner are way more comfortable holding and playing a 1700’s era violin or viola. So how did these and other world class mu…
Sitka Interlude Part 1
Spirit is moored at Eliason Harbor in Sitka. There was quite a bit of maintenance to perform and also sightseeing, shopping and attending the opening night of the Sitka Music Festival on Friday at Harrigan Centennial Hall. The musicians per…
