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Video: Passage from Canada to Seattle

February 25, 2015

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn. ~Bernhard DeVoto

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Date we cast off the docklines (and our jobs) and have been semi-full-time cruising sinceMarch 31, 2018

5.5 years ago.

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Reason #458 sailboats are better than motorboats - highest view in the marina. 😂

We're winding down our cruising season and Juneau is making it easy to remember why this is our home port. One of the most beautiful views from a port, and I think the only town in Southeast where you can routinely see a glacier while driving or walking around town.

We've been on the free dock at Swanson for 5 days and each night only one boat, or none, has joined us. This is a very popular spot in June and July but now there are hardly any pleasure craft (PCs) cruising. Those are the pink dots in the last 2 photos - where we're cruising now, vs where we were last year (San Juans).

Recently I read the book The Molecule of More, about dopamine. Basically this is the brain chemical that makes us want more, more, more. It's a lot of things, both good and bad, but can be destructive in some cases.

Just our 5th time flying the spinnaker this year, but that's pretty good for Alaska!

Sawmill Bay, Excursion Inlet.

We've been doing a ton of smoking and canning of salmon this year. Those are the two main tools in our fish preservation toolbox once our freezers are full.

A four coho day (2 each). 😃 We haven't been able to fish for a while due to bad weather (high winds make the straits very rough) but found a spot today with a hot bite (just follow the sporties! Always funny being the smallest boat out there in our 10' dinghy).

Juneau is our home port but we actually haven't been back in over a year - since May 2022 (even though we've been in AK much of that time).

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