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Whale Journals – January 2016 – Atomic 4 Energy!
Did I mention the engine? Sailing is a zen art form – working with the wind, feeling its direction, its strength, its pulse – riding the sea as she rocks and cradles you. Or sends you flying across the deck in wild parody of cradles gone mad. Flung from port to starboard, bracing bow to …
Whale Journals – December 2015 – Netflukes – whale movies
Not much going on in whale world on the water for us these days. I heard reports of 4 or 5 humpbacks hanging out between Vancouver Island and Texada Island but we’ve been quite busy working. Last month was about books to curl up and hibernate with during the dark days of winter.This month it’s …
Whale Journals – November 2015 – Winter’s Whale Tales
I’m climbing up to a moss and lichen bluff near the cabin. A flake-barked old fir and battle-scarred arbutus cling to the shattered rock which constitutes the geology of this cliff on the ridge above our bay. During these dark November days this is the only place I can be sure of catching some sun …
Whale Now! 2 – October 2015
Terry, Jamie and I are perched together on rocks as far out as we can get at low tide waiting for the whales to come around to our side of the inlet. Jamie, who knows their routine, is sure they will make their usual circle and cruise by our campsite. It is dusk already. We …
Whale Now! – October 2015
Celebration Time!! Whales! Two of them breaching Photo of Breaching Humpback By Whit Welles and tail lobbing on the other side of the inlet! Barking rifle shots of sound shoot across the water when their bodies crash down in cascades of spray. I can hear the guys who are working uphill from our campsite explode …
Whale Journals – Sept 2015 – Land Locked
“It’s a simple carburetor” So says the salty dog with 70 + years experience sailing and repairing old motors. Terry and Jude got the correct carb kit sent to their local dealer, picked it up and trundled over to Michael Smith’s garage, where a simple tuneup turned into a long afternoon’s work. Marguerite, Michael’s wife …
Whale Journals – August 2015 – the carbur ate our plans!
So, this month was going to be the month we finally got out during this incredible hot, sunny weather to sail around the gorgeous inlets and hang out with whales. We gathered all the equipment we would need, no mean feat after a major move. Freedive suits, masks, snorkels, fins, fishing gear, spare parts for …
Whale Journals – July 2015 – Seal of Approval
We’re still living out of boxes and up to our eyeballs in organizing stuff after the move. But the ocean is calling. And it’s WARM! The biting bugs have begun to abate and there is a bounty of bedazzling beasts basking on our narrow bay’s beach. Canada Day, July 1st we were blessed by a …
Whale Journals – June 2015 – Wooden it be Loverly?
Did I mention that we are moving this month? We’ve been sorting, packing and giving away stuff since April. But it’s down to the crunch of yard sales and major cleaning now. Our new place is a gorgeous log house on a long, narrow bay occupied by oyster operations. The house has been well cared …