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Kayaking rocks
Not much to say here. I’m just going through pictures of the cape that I’ve taken in years gone by… psyching myself up for the next week or so. Not that I need to get any more pumped, but I can’t help myself. The Olympic coast is truly world-class kayaking, around every corner, in every […]
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Little things
I was playing a game of Battleship with the boy last night, and I got to thinking about forever. Maybe it’s because my life is revolving around plastic debris these days, but as I looked at the little red and white markers in my hand – the ones that mark “hits” and “misses” on the […]
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Extra batteries
I’ve reached the point in the packing process where I’m down to the smaller details. The big things – sleeping bag, tent, clothes, cooking gear – have already been assigned to their correct places. Drybags are organized and set in a pile. I haven’t done much on the food front yet, but that can wait. […]
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June
Around these parts, you’ll hear people say that summer starts on the 5th of July. It feels that way this morning. I’m finishing up the Point Defiance trails guide, thinking about the packing I still have to do for the trip and wondering if the rain will hold off long enough for us to get […]
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Click, click, click
There is a chance, a very slight chance, that some of the debris making its way over from Japan will be radioactive. The tsunami occurred well before the meltdown and radioactive release at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear facility, so much of the flotsam was already out of the area before any contamination could take place. […]
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Radio update
The photo above comes courtesy of Steve Weileman, one of my paddling partners on the upcoming Ikkatsu Expedition. He took it when we were going around Vashon Island back in March, our first shakedown cruise in preparation for the coast survey. (It also happened to be the first time I pulled the trawl net, which […]
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Down to the wire
The tent has been seam-sealed, I’m working on getting the personal gear together for the first leg of the trip and I expect to get a geiger counter in the mail any day now. (More on that later.) But mostly, I’m up at all hours of the night, writing. There’s the outline of the shooting […]
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Linkage and more linkage
After getting bumped from yesterday’s NPR show (my segment is supposed to air on Thursday now), I figured I should probably send out a couple more links, just because. First of all, Kokatat has put our smiling faces on their Expeditions Page, as well as given us some new PFDs and anoraks that I expect […]
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On the radio
My interview on the NPR show “The Story with Dick Gordon,” is scheduled for today. It’s a preview of the Ikkatsu Expedition and I talk about how the idea came about, the route and what we are expecting to find along the way. (At least, that’s what I think I talked about… I’m going to […]
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Waving the flag
The year has rolled around to this point again, where we as a nation look back on the sacrifices of those who gave their all for our right to have a day off, to go to the big sale at the mall, barbeque in the rain and drink too much fizzy, yellow beer. Sorry… that […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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