Hello again:

This is a real messy transmission...pictures in wrong spots and missing narrative. Oh well...I tried.

Suzan read an interesting bit of "cruising trivia" Sunday morning as we were readying the boat to leave the dock at Prince Rupert: Posted on "InsidePassageNews.com" by Don & Reanne Douglass while aboard thier research vessel, Baidarka: "Spring, 2007 may go down in the record books as having the worst cruising weather in Alaska's history. This on the heels of the snowiest winter (2007) in history which was preceeded by the wettest summer in forever. After six weeks of cruising this spring, they just experienced their first sunny day this week."We must be treating the?weather gods very well and just maybe we'll bring our good weather north to Alaska and escape the seasonal pea soup weather for which SE Alaska is so famous. We've had sun in varying degrees probably 80% of our journey which is more than enough to replace the paler shade of white sk in tones with a healthy tone allowed, of course, with the proper SPF filter.

Crossing Dixon Entrance, the last "open water," found us once again on mirror smooth seas with sun and blue skies. We must be living right! The winds finally did pick up enough to unfurl the sails for a while. Crossing into Alaska did bring an end to the good weather and we decided to go up Behm Channel ala Misty Fiords where we anchored for the evening off Carp Island. Dropped the crab pot and settled in for dinner and another episode of Planet Earth. After retrieving the empty crab pot the next morning, we motored north to Punch Bowl Cove which was a small cove lined on one side with a breathaking vertical granite curved wall. Was also the first sighting of little "tourista" boats out of Ketchikan screaming around at 15 knots. We had been remarking how nice and rather odd is was that we had not seen any cruise ships. I was beginning to wonder after two weeks of no sightings that maybe Alaska had banned them.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Having just spent the last hour writing this installment, lost the signal and doing mail through Comcast vs Outlook is a major irritant at the moment. Completely lost everything I wrote. So will just send pictures from Thomas Basin Harbor here in Ketchikan.

Next stop Juneau.

Linda

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