Children will sing, bells will ring and somewhere there is a very confused pig spreading his new wings. I finally caught a salmon. A chinook at that! DAYS LATER EDIT: APPARENTLY IT WAS A PINK. I SUCK AT SALMON ID.… Continue reading
So last weekend I went on my first multi-day trip! And didn’t die! All photos are from my mobile phone because I forgot to charge my fancy camera’s battery before we left. Oops. We took this route There was… Continue reading
It’s true – this weekend I hooked FIVE salmon and only got one in the boat, and that one was tiny so I just lifted it in. That makes 6 salmon in total hooked and 1 boated, meaning I’m batting… Continue reading
So after all my hubris in my last post, I did not actually sail over. My ankle is still pretty bad, and for a solo trip it just seemed like a big ol’ bad idea. And I’ve had a few… Continue reading
‘International Trip’. It sounds so grand doesn’t it?! As it turns out, it’s just a short jaunt across the Haro Straight to the San Juan islands I plan to head tomorrow to Orcas Island to pal around with my friend… Continue reading
I haven’t posted anything for a while, because I’ve been mostly in pain for the last two weeks so it would just be endless whining about my foot and NO-ONE wants to read that. Oh for the record, my foot… Continue reading
The race is now on, and you can follow it on http://tracker.r2ak.com/ Phil and Team Mau got through Seymour Narrows, but apparently the wind is gusting up to 40 knots, which on a beach cat…. yikes. Here are some photos I… Continue reading
No not fighting a kraken or surviving a knockdown in a gale, instead I was playing soccer and got in a bad tackle and ripped all the ligaments. Sigh. Aside from having a comically swollen foot, it also means that… Continue reading