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• Our New Home in Tutka Bay, Alaska
  on May 31, 2013 in Alaska Travel Wildlife alaska homer alaska jobs in alaska tutka bay lodge
  We’ve been a little behind on our writing as of late, so we wanted to catch you up on our first two weeks of work here at Tutka Bay Lodge… Yesterday I flew in a helicopter, landed on a glacier, had a sandwich while sitting on some 10,000 year ol...
• Aw Man, Octopus Agaaaiin!
  on May 27, 2013 in Alaska Food Wildlife alaska eating octopus homer octopus
  A cold rain falls in early May in Homer, Alaska.  We were enjoying all the stunning ocean scenery and the educational workshops at the Shorebird Festival, but we were beginning to get a bit cold and damp after four days of camping amidst the rain an...
• Note To Self: Don’t Ever Fly In A Cessna Again
  on May 19, 2013 in Alaska Sailing Travel acts of kindness alaska cessna planes travel by small plane travel in alaska
• 59 Degrees North
  on May 10, 2013 in Travel alaska baja homer alaska mexico travel
  Our last journey took us to the Tropic of Cancer, a land of heat and relentless sun, where snorkeling and spearfishing were our daily pastimes.  But today we sit beneath a mile deep soup of Seattle fog, awaiting our flight to Alaska and 59 degre...
• Field Notes From The Seattle Airport
  on May 8, 2013 in Travel Wildlife birding homer alaska seattle airport traveling
  Homer, Alaska is renowned as one of the great birdwatching areas in the world, and early May in particular brings a massive migration of shorebirds to the coastal areas near town.   Millions of these avian sojourners stop in to take advantage of the...
• A Comedy of Beavers
  on May 6, 2013 in Wildlife beaver beaver behavior beaver colony beaver fight ninemile territory
  We were enjoying a cool evening watching the sun set over Ninemile Creek, when we saw a flurry of brown fur cartwheeling near the far bank. When the melee ended, one huge beaver climbed victoriously onto the bank and watched as the smaller beaver swa...
• Wylie’s Gone Rogue
  on May 1, 2013 in Pets Travel dog blog new blog wylies blog
  As you know, Wylie opted out of our upcoming Alaskan adventure in order to spend more time with his grandparents.  As we said our goodbyes in Austin, Wylie told us he wanted to come after all, grizzly bears be damned.  But the wheels were already i...
• Selkie Rides Again
  on Apr 25, 2013 in Sailing The Boat mexico new sailboat owner sea of cortez selling sailboat in mexico
  The new owner walked down the dock and as we came into view he threw up his arms and shouted “Selkie!” Two days of grueling travel hadn’t dampered his excitement for his new boat. Before we parted ways he handed us a beautiful, hand...
• Tuck Your Pant Legs Into Your Socks, People
  on Apr 16, 2013 in Sailing Wildlife baja wiildlife coachwhip snake octopus rattlesnake scorpions tarantula
  *Our apologies to those email subscribers who received this post prematurely a few weeks ago* Here’s a rogue’s gallery of some of the leggier, spinier, weirder and downright scarier critters that have crossed our paths in the last few months trav...
• A Matter of Perspective
  on Apr 13, 2013 in Sea of Cortez Travel canyon hike hiking baja puerto escondido waterfall baja
  *Our apologies to those email subscribers who received this post prematurely a few weeks ago* We were stuck in Puerto Escondido, waiting out yet another norther (the one that clocked in at 39 knots), and we had to fill our days with something other t...

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