Mamalilaculla is an abandoned First Nations community located on Indian Reserve land on Village Island in the Broughton archipelgo. The guidebooks all describe a community that was built on a midden about 12 feet high (i.e., there must have been at least intermittent habitation for thousands of years), and the village remained viable into the…
A very short distance in a northwesterly direction up Tribune Channel from Kwatsi Bay, is a special waterfall that drops straight down into the salt water from a smooth, broad granite face. The guidebooks refer to it as "Lacy Falls" and rumor has it the shore is so steep-to that you can run yer boat…
Up here in British Columbia, north of the 50th parallel, everything is bigger. The mountains are bigger. The tidal ranges are bigger.* The currents are bigger. The weather is…bigger. All this makes standing in awe very easy, but the scale of the landscape is very difficult for the human eye to measure in a photograph. …
Meet Odin. He’s the construction barge-with-crane that the Port of Seattle has retained to rebuild the docks hereabouts at Shilshole Marina . Odin’s shown here, working on the dock next to ours. He’s been roughly 100 feet from the Fox since about the week before Thanksgiving 2006. He’s very good at what he does, every…
Following GB’s lead, I left The Job on December 19, 2006. Boy, I’m sure going to miss that paycheck showing up every two weeks in the checking account via electronic magic. Bye-bye, Nice Money. Bye-bye. On the other hand, there are a few things I don’t expect to miss: 1. Getting my sorry carcass out…
Tell someone you’re going sailing, and invariably the reaction is an audible sigh and a faraway look. Sailing is like that – everyone imagines a clean white boat ghosting into a quiet bay in warm, turquoise-colored water, off a white sand beach on an uninhabited, palm tree-lined island. I’ve seen photographs of places like this,…
"…and tho’ we are not now that strength which in the old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are….” So. Here I am, performing a kettlebell squat* with our 20Kg/44 lb. anchor. The smaller anchor at my feet is our 10Kg/22 lb. stern anchor. Look how shiny. Malö sure makes purty…
Ours is more like a sitcom. GB has written some very impressive posts in this here blog. I can assure you that everything he says is true. However, I should like to add a bit of perspective, lest a reader or two assume that GB is an infallible genius not only at the culinary arts…