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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

3.2 years ago.

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Marjorie Glacier is probably the most exciting one that boats are allowed to visit, because it's a tidewater glacier meaning it extends right up to the water, and it's actively calving - you can hear or see chunks falling off. Yet Marjorie is apparently stable - neither retreating nor advancing (John Hopkins glacier is advancing, but most are retreating).

We saw a ton of wildlife in Glacier Bay. Here are the sea otters.

We had many very rainy, foggy and low visibility days in Glacier Bay. The weather hasn't been cooperating this year in SE Alaska. It's amazing to think the two sunny weeks we had in *April* (tail end of winter) are still the warmest, nicest weather we've had going on June now (start of summer?).

We're leaving Glacier Bay today after 9 days in the park. I have a lot of photos to catch up on sharing when we have time+Internet!

Sailing to Glacier Bay National Park today, with a permit to stay till June 7. We probably won't have any cellular for the next week+.

Tanner crab (aka snow crab) are even creepier sea spiders than Dungeness. All released (undersize).

Our crab trap has been picking up crazy stuff in Alaska, like this giant sunflower sea star.

Lucked out with some beautiful weather in Hoonah today. Dandelions seem to be the local flower.

"Alaska Problems": couldn't go for a walk today because a brown bear was hogging shore time all day. (yes we could scare him away with a horn but we wouldn't do that - this is his home before ours).

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