Leaving port at noon after a 24 hour weather delay of the start of the fishery due to gale warnings, we headed out in a swell that only increased the closer we got to Cape Chiniak and the open Gulf of Alaska. The Miss Linda, 68 feet of steel built for crabbing in ‘74, rolled in the waves, spray shooting across …..
Read MoreClouds meet sea today, shrouding our island, blurring the spruce trees to smudges, and imperceptibly blending into ocean at the horizon. It is an easterly wind that brings this overcast drizzly day and that piles up the waves sweeping in to our coastline from the wide-open Gulf of Alaska. As we ready for Tanner crab fishing in a couple of days……
Read MoreLooking forward to 2019, we take a moment to remember some moments of 2018. Here’s to the new year!
Read MoreI think one of the important draws to living out in bush Alaska is that we are a part of something bigger, raw and real, without guard rails keeping mother nature at bay. Both of us like challenges and the visceral reality of life lived in concert with nature. At the whims of tides and wind, we love the slower pace of life at home...
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