Barkley Sound 2016

Barkley Sound Day 1 – The Packing

Today we packed, and packed, and packed, and then stored, and stored, and stored all that packed stuff into hidden

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Barkley Sound Day 2 – Our Asymmetrical handles more wind than we can…

Well, today we got up around 8am, slowly started to prep, filled the water tank and then got ready to

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Barkley Sound Day 3 – Hello Victoria and the Vic-Maui Crews!

Devon woke up early this morning, pulled up the anchor and motored away from Port Townsend on the way out

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Barkley Sound Day 4 – A day of rest, sort of…

Well we woke up in Victoria still, made some coffee, and got moving a bit.   Last night I noticed one

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Barkley Sound Day 5 – The Straits…

Rose early (about 5:30am) and got going.  We had to slip out between a few boats since we were “parallel

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Barkley Sound Day 6 – The Dinghy Fail

We woke up later than usual, you know, 8:10am, with no real plan for the day. We had some breakfast

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Barkley Sound Day 7 – MOB (Mobile overboard) and Sushi for Dinner…

Woke up to a beautiful morning! Got the girls up for breakfast and packed a few items for the fishing

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Barkley Sound Day 8 – Dodging the gale in Dodger Channel

At about 8:30am this morning, Devon was already up and Capt’n Pete dinghy’d over with our frozen salmon filets. A

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Barkley Sound Day 9 – Marveling at Marble Cove

Today we woke up and decided it was a cleaning day as the boat needed to be organized and cleaned

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Updating the blog where Internet barely exists…

I forgot to mention in the Day 10 post that I finally solves some of my challenges with updating the

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Barkley Sound Day 10 – Failing to find the nettles at Nettle Island

(Resending via Satellite) The girls got up fairly early today in Marble Cove and we had some breakfast, then Devon

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Barkley Sound Day 11 – Warm water swimming in Pipestem Inlet

Only one small photo today due to updating via satellite… Today was a late morning, which is fine, except that

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Captain Morgan’s Log – July 11th, 2016

My tummy is hurting. My tummy is hurting. Because I am sea sick. I am seasick because we are going

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Captain Morgan’s Log – July 12th, 2016

Day 4 we slept in Barkly sound. Day 5 we slept in Barkly sound. Today we are ixploring Barkly sound.

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Captain Morgan’s Log – July 16th, 2016

It is bedtime. Day 10. We are planing to go Kayaking this morning. We just got jrest. We are jurnaling

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Barkley Sound Day 12 – Gunkholing and Hiking at Lucky Falls

Only one small photo again today due to updating via satellite… Today we got up to a quick cereal and

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Barkley Sound Day 13 – Oh the calamity!

Well today was crazy… We had some scary times, and some stressful times, and some good times. Girls got up

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Last Night in Effingham Bay

I thought this picture showed our anchorage pretty well… —- This e-mail was delivered via satellite phone using GMN’s XGate

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Barkley Sound Day 14 – Sea Lion WOW at Wouwer Island

Another late morning with cereal and oatmeal, except for Devon who got up pretty early and washed some of the

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Barkley Sound Day 15 – “I didn’t sink!”

Wow, today was busy and long… Even though we never left the boat. Morgan had seemed to be getting to

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Barkley Sound Day 16 – Clueless in Ucluelet (You-Cloo-Let)

Note about the last post: Since we had workable Internet I looked up the sea creature we saw last night

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Making Sure You See What Your Radar Sees…

Mobert is now just about 10 years old and as such the Raymarine electronics that she came with are of the

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Barkley Sound Trip Wrap up…

We’re home of course, and the boat came home separately.  On the morning of our last day in Barkley Sound,

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