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Our Cruising Platform: Great Northern, a DeFever 53 Performance Offshore Cruiser

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  • Soapstone… An Alternative Meditation
  • Tis Middle Autumn… Leaning Towards The Cusp of Winter
  • Autumn In Pacific Northwest Forests: Flagler State Park, Port Ludlow and Surrounds
  • Well folks… it’s shroom season in the Northwest…
  • Our 2023 Shoulder Season Cruise Finale: Bedwell Harbour, Hunter Bay… Port Ludlow
  • Dogfish Bay (AKA Kendrick Island), Valdes Island, BC, Canada… 9/15/23
  • After Prideaux: Galley Bay, Then… Powell River.
  • After Cortes Island: Prideaux Haven and… Galley Bay
  • Departing Waiatt Bay and Exploring Cortes Island: 9/1/23 to 9/10/23
  • Images of Our Shoulder Season Travels in Great Northern. 8/15/23 – 8/31/23, Hunter Bay to Waiatt Bay and the Octopus Islands, British Columbia
  • Gorge Harbour… Late August, 2023
  • A Photogenic Tapestry: Waiatt Harbour and the Octopus Islands, Quadra Island, BC, Canada; August 2023
  • 10/28/23.  The Discovery Islands:  Rebecca Spit to Waiatt Harbor and the Octopus Islands
  • 8.26.2023, 20:00; Drew Harbour, Quadra Island, BC
  • PNW Shoulder Season Cruise, 2023
  • An End of Year Jaunt in the Local Woods
  • Images of Our 2025 Timeline
  • Compelling Images…
  • The Captivating Contronym: Raveling
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  • Soapstone… An Alternative Meditation
  • Tis Middle Autumn… Leaning Towards The Cusp of Winter
  • Autumn In Pacific Northwest Forests: Flagler State Park, Port Ludlow and Surrounds
  • Well folks… it’s shroom season in the Northwest…
  • Our 2023 Shoulder Season Cruise Finale: Bedwell Harbour, Hunter Bay… Port Ludlow
  • Dogfish Bay (AKA Kendrick Island), Valdes Island, BC, Canada… 9/15/23
  • After Prideaux: Galley Bay, Then… Powell River.
  • After Cortes Island: Prideaux Haven and… Galley Bay
  • Departing Waiatt Bay and Exploring Cortes Island: 9/1/23 to 9/10/23
  • Images of Our Shoulder Season Travels in Great Northern. 8/15/23 – 8/31/23, Hunter Bay to Waiatt Bay and the Octopus Islands, British Columbia
  • Gorge Harbour… Late August, 2023
  • A Photogenic Tapestry: Waiatt Harbour and the Octopus Islands, Quadra Island, BC, Canada; August 2023
  • 10/28/23.  The Discovery Islands:  Rebecca Spit to Waiatt Harbor and the Octopus Islands
  • 8.26.2023, 20:00; Drew Harbour, Quadra Island, BC
  • PNW Shoulder Season Cruise, 2023
  • An End of Year Jaunt in the Local Woods
  • Images of Our 2025 Timeline
  • Compelling Images…
  • The Captivating Contronym: Raveling
  • Blog Feed
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June 1st 2026: The Beginning of Cruising Season

It began as it always does.  Hours of groundwork, planning, list formulation, developing operational schemes that unfold over time and … Continue reading June 1st 2026: The Beginning of Cruising Season

The Marbled Murrelets Have Moved On. In the Space They Vacated… We Now Have Rafts of Eared Grebes…

The Murrelets have vacated the Bay and are off to start their breeding and nesting soirees.  There are a few … Continue reading The Marbled Murrelets Have Moved On. In the Space They Vacated… We Now Have Rafts of Eared Grebes…

Marbled Murrelets. An Aqua-Centric Forrest Dweller

From early winter through mid-spring, we moor in a bay nestled against the remnants of a temperate rain forest. These … Continue reading Marbled Murrelets. An Aqua-Centric Forrest Dweller

It’s Happening at the University of Washington’s Quad…

The UW Quad hosts 29 Yoshino cherry Trees estimated to be around 90 years old. They appear older than that. … Continue reading It’s Happening at the University of Washington’s Quad…

A Mid-Winter Sighting…

According to Google and other completely reliable sources… spring officially begins on March 1st. That is the meteorological definition. Looking … Continue reading A Mid-Winter Sighting…

A Narrative From the Kingdom of Woe:   A Story Of An Electrical Failure… 

There usually are upstream causal factors or circumstances that contribute to most failures. In the science of failure analysis, they … Continue reading A Narrative From the Kingdom of Woe:   A Story Of An Electrical Failure… 

An End of Year Jaunt in the Local Woods

In just a short while it will be 2026. Since it was another sunnyish day in the Great Northland… We … Continue reading An End of Year Jaunt in the Local Woods

Images of Our 2025 Timeline

And… Les has been knitting: Continue reading Images of Our 2025 Timeline

Compelling Images…

I would like to share… No. It is more than a mere like. Like is so… worn-out, hackneyed, unimaginative and … Continue reading Compelling Images…

The Captivating Contronym: Raveling

Raveling… is a contronym.  That means that it can describe both the act of tangling and depending on use: Untangling. … Continue reading The Captivating Contronym: Raveling

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