Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Revolving door
This is the time of year when I feel like I need to put in a revolving door. I just got back the other night from the coast, and I am leaving tomorrow for a 3-day kayak training with the staff from Camp Seymour. Then I’ll be back until July 2nd (which seems like it’s […]
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Pictures from an expedition
Not a lot of talk. Just photos. (These aren’t even the good ones… those will come from Steve and Kiwi, and they’ll be on the Ikkatsu web site in due course.) Not to mention that this will all be a film eventually, and you will want to see it. I know I will. In the […]
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So much to say
The first leg of the Ikkatsu Project was, in my estimation anyway, a rousing success. Filming went well, the weather started out nice and ended rather burly (as all good expeditions should), and we found a lot of debris. Which actually is not a “good” thing at all, but it certainly sharpened our focus. Although […]
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We got back from the coast yesterday evening after a very successful first phase of the Ikkatsu project. We found debris, not just the usual sickening quantities of beach plastic, but also some items that were directly attributable to the tsunami. (Including what we think was once part of a house – the bathroom, we’re […]
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Initiate Phase 1
So… we’re leaving today for Neah Bay. Tomorrow, we’ve got a few interviews in town and some shooting to do in the surrounding area and then, on Sunday morning, we’ll actually push off the beach with the boats loaded. We may have cell phone coverage for part of the time, but it’s pretty sporadic. I’m […]
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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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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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