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The summer’s almost gone. The weather is actually supposed to stay pretty nice through September but the lazy mornings and late nights are fast coming to a close. Mary’s a teacher (I guess I am too, come to think of it), and Micah will be starting Kindergarten pretty soon so, once school gets up and […]
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I know there’s a drought going on in some places. Heat waves, corn drying out and withering in the fields, triple-digit temperatures and plagues of locusts, but these are the kind of things that happen in other parts of the nation, other parts of the world. In the Northwest, if we get three days in […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Mosquito Creek
August 8, 2012 This was an “off” day, more or less. We’d decided that we didn’t need to cover any more coastline – we were just 6 miles or so from our eventual take-out at Ruby Beach – and we had some other things we’d rather be doing. There was another survey to be accomplished […]
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Sunny afternoon
“And I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, Lazing on a sunny afternoon. In the summertime…” Jimmy Buffett It was such a perfect day up here in the Northwest corner yesterday that I had to take the board out on the Narrows, do a lazy paddle through the blue chop down […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Third Beach to Mosquito Creek
August 7, 2012 One good thing about Third Beach is that it’s steep enough that launching doesn’t have to be planned around the tides. Many of the shallow-angle shorelines – like Shi Shi and Hobuck – require some long walks out over the sand at low tide just to get to a point where the […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – La Push to Third Beach
August 6, 2012 We didn’t leave the beach at La Push until about 1:00pm, which is pretty late, no matter how you look at it. Still, it left us with plenty of time to make it to Third Beach, and because of the Japanese TV crew that was attending us, that was set to be […]
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Ikkatsu Expedition complete (sort of)
We got into Ruby Beach today at about noon after a great morning paddle from Mosquito Creek. Expect a full update in the days to follow, including more diary entries for CNN, but for now, allow me to just mention a few of the choice tidbits… – Once again, no mosquitoes at Mosquito Creek. Strange? […]
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Southward…
The third leg of the Ikkatsu Project starts today. This was supposed to be the end of the paddling, but we’re going to come back out in September to make the out-and-back to Destruction Island. Because of wildlife concerns and nesting sea birds, we can’t include it on this portion of the trip as originally […]
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Going south
When I look at the map for the next leg of the Ikkatsu Expedition, I see a coastline that rivals any on earth for raw beauty and power. There are the standing stones and offshore stacks of the Giant’s Graveyard, the defiance of Toleak Point, jutting out into the wild surf from the deep green […]
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New Release
A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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