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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

David,

Thanks for the post. Man, am I jealous!!! Mr. Green yes, just green with envy.
Here I am, stuck at work, reading about your travels and wishing I was there. Beer

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

David,

Thanks for the blog on your trip! Great reading! I sure wish I could have got my boat ready to go along with you guys. Maybe next time! Be safe up there and I look forward to your next installment!

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

David,
Excellent "log" of your trip, now anxiously awaiting your next reports...thank you!

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Pat Anderson



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Posting from my Treo Bluetooth connection at the Ketchikan Yacht Club, a s...l...o...w dialup connection, so will have to wait until tomorrow to put a few pix up. Flying back to Seattle at about 11:00 a.m., my Great Inside Passage Adventure is over, it was everything I was hoping and more. David's blog has given you the blow by blow, I will try to give some sense of the grandeur we have experienced in a few photos...
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow - you guys are my heroes!
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in Fall City! Some explanation about communications, or lack thereof...we had a wi-fi internet connection at Sullivan Bay on Broughton Island, and I posted the one pic from there. Then...into the abyss. No cell anywhere, not even in Prince Ruppert, until we reached Ketchikan, no internet until we reached Ivory Island, where I posted the report of our first four days. The internet connection was via satellite, and the computer kept reporting the connection dropped. Amazingly, our cell phones did not work in Prince Ruppert, we kept getting some message from the local cell company to contact our carriers, and we were only there long enough to fuel up and head out across Dixon Entrance anyway, so no time to look for internet. I could not even let Patty know how we were progressing. In Ketchikan, my cell phone worked, but the only internet connection was at a laundromat called Thomas Wash Basin (!) and my power supply failed right in the middle of posting. This was not meant to be. Heading out, there was internet at Yes Bay, but I was a ways behind David, and only had time to fuel. Back in Ketchikan, I finally got the Treo Blue tooth to work - sort of...anyone here remember 300 baud connections? Laughing David has given you the blog, and I will get busy, perhaps tonight perhaps not, uploading a bunch more pix...It was a GREAT trip altogether, just far too short to see everything I wanted to...maybe next year!

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here we are heading off for the hot springs at Bailey Bay...little did we know what was ahead! Alan Olson, one of the crew on Daydream, is in the middle, not shy but physically not able to turn around for the photo!



The Douglasses describe the hike to the hot spings as "challenging" - and that is pretty much an understatement...The trail starts out gaining a lot of elevation right off the bat, then it goes from a nice gravel path to the typical Alaskan muddy path, over and under logs, boulders, and...a waterfall. The bridge had washed out, the pics do NOT do this justice, both ways I just kept hoping Patty had my life insurance premium paid up!






And the prize at the end of the trail! (Not me, the hot springs!) There was also a very nice Forest Service shelter there, where David built a fire and we dried out our clothing as best we could. In fact, my overriding memory of Alaska will always be wet socks!

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ivory Island Light Station is a stop any C-Dory making this trip absolutely should make. Brent Hacking ("Lightkeeper" on this site) was the head keeper when we stopped by (Brent is now the head keeper at Estevan Light Station on the west side of Vancouver Island), and his wife Sylvia is now the head keeper at Ivory Island, the first female head keeper in the history of the Canadian Coast Guard. Brent and Sylvia welcomed us at the beach on the back side of the island, where we tied up to Brent's mooring bouy and dinghied ashore.



The beach and the light station are connected by a 100 year old boardwalk.





Brent launches his boat by a high line powered by a donkey engine. I can't explain the mechanics of how the boat attaches to the line and gets dropped down to the water, but that is how it works. Jeff Messmer tried to convince Brent that a CD16 would work just fine on the high line. Brent allowed how as the CD16 might be able to take it, but his ticker couldn't!



We walked up to the keeper's residence, where Sylvia made us tea, we had an almost-functional satellite internet connection and we had an unquestionably delightful visit! Lightkeepers all monitor VHF channel 82A, and are happy to respond to inquiries about weather and sea conditions. If you are going by either Ivory Island or Estevan, definitely PM Brent here and let him know you will be coming by!



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the link to the album for the trip. A note on the photos, I got copies of David's and Alan's pix as well as my own, so even though they have my name on them, they might not all be my pix. Have over 300 total, lots more to post, but lacking time right now.
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