UPDAtE!

We have had some great adventures thus far on our trip south.  Now at our furthest point we are heading through the canal in a few hours and we will be back in the Pacific making our way north.  I have some great photos that I will try to get up online.  We had a few stops, Isla Mujeras, Roatan, and Bocas Del Toro area.  We almost walked right into a sloth crossing the path at Red Frog Resort and saw cool wildlife, did yoga with some locals, and got to surf!  Half way there.......Another update soon.

-Macy

Im cooking dinner tonight, here is my palette

http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/food-design-at-its-best-40-extraordinary-examples-of-edible-art.html

Upcoming trip

We are finally out of Fort Lauderdale and I am happy to say that I won't be back to the east coast via boat again possibly in my life.  Airplane to the city, great.  Airplane to Maine, awesome.  Boat, taking it back to California.

I  am going to be turning off my phone in a few days so the best way to contact me would be facebook or missmacyprice@gmail.com.  

Our  plan goes as follows, dates are really up to the weather:

1-5-11 Ft Lauderdale to Key West

1-7-11 Key West to Cancun Surrounding Islands

1-17-11  Cancun to Belize City Area

Belize to Livingston, Guatamala and the Rio Grande!

Guatamala to Roatan

Roatan to San Andreas Islands

San Andreas to Panama Canal

THEN NORTH!

We think we will be back in California around the Beginning of March.  If anyone has any suggestions for places to go please send some pointers.  As far as getting anyone to come on the trip......it is pretty hard to say where and when you can meet us.  

All my love, 

Macy

Riding the banana in Cuba!

http://www.cuba.tc/pic/CuGuardalavacaMain.jpg

Happy Holidays from Miami

coo-coo-cachoo

My friday here is sitting, relaxing, and reading about articles such as this...

http://www.gadling.com/2009/08/04/w-fort-lauderdale-saves-turtles-from-suicide/

Next summer vacation

Ever heard of Pender Cove?  Next ultimate summer sailing vacation in Canada.......I would love to come back. 

I am going to Vancouver tomorrow!  Biggest city since I left.  Who wants to go shopping on Robson?  San Juan Islands  Friday Harbor the following day and Seattle!!!

Vancouver Island

Almost there!!!!  We docked yesterday on the north end of Vancouver Island in Port Hardy....or should I say Port Hardly, the only thing here is a rancid smell of dead carcas!  It is soooo terrible. We get to leave tomorrow and will be out for a few days with some guests then making our way back to Seattle.  I'm expected to be back and out of a job around the 25th!  I cant wait to see my friends and family in Oregon for a little while then off to Maui with the girls for Danielles's wedding!

Can you believe the store is called Overweities! haha, this is a funny little place.  I can't express how much I want to be back.  For me, when I see the light at the end of the tunnel I get so anxious for the finish line.  I am almost there....1 week countdown.

temp home for the month

August 28, 2010

I am still here in Good ol Petersburg using the internet at the local library.  I feel like I have been here forever but still seem to find something new to do every day.  Every town, big or small, is what you make of it.  I am certainly ready to get out of here and head back down to Seattle and some civilization.  We have guests coming next week then we will start heading back down. 

Flating Glacier Ice off LeConte Glacier

Alaskan Cocktail  = Glacier Ice and Scotch

This has been an experience of a lifetime and I am so thankful for this seclusion, I think everyone needs to experience it.  Slow, simple, easy. 

Herring for bait

Halibut - Sorry for the blood bath

Here are some photos since we got here.  Jordan I am rented a car and got to explore the island….all 32 miles of road:o)  It only took us 5 hours to drive, hike a couple of hours before we ran out of things to do.  It was nice to get off the boat and drive a car!  I really have taken that for granted!  This place is lush, green, and alive.  

Dark Tannic Rivers run throughout Alaska

The three lakes hike was unbelievable.  The trail is all boardwalk!  The ground is so wet and boggy that there is no way there could be that path without it.  We ran into some local forest service kids doing maintence on it and got the whole scoop and were able to thank them for such a wonderful trail. All of the wood is brought in by a helicopter.  It looked like a lot of work.  

I learned last night at the pub that these guys would pack up outboard motors for those row boats and inner tube behind it! haha, good ol red neck fun.  

Back down the road

Beaver Pond

Craig to Petersburg, El Capitan Again....

I cannot tell you the beauty of the emerald green water up here below the massive snow covered peaks and hillsides packed full of greenery.  The sun is out and shimmering on this scene.  We got out of the fog and rain of Craig, about 80 miles south, and started making our way up to Petersberg.  Our first night we stopped for a striking fishing adventure at “Hole in the Wall”.  Our mothership, Anchor W, tows a little Eagle Craft welded fishing boat that we can take out.  So we anchored up at a place called Hole in the Wall and took the boat for a go.  Brook, the first mate, has a friend that is familiar with the area and told us about all the fish here.  The second we pulled in the boys were off to give it a go.  With the sun setting I decided for a puzzle instead.  When they came back they had the biggest fish I have ever seen!  This King Salmon was so fat it was hard to pick up.  A 45lb fish along with a few nice silvers, or Coho.  We celebrated with some music and a fish cleaning party.  Just us in the middle of nowhere, it is a pretty cool experience.  Besides our hangovers we were excited to get back out there that next morning.  Brook, Captain Rob and I headed out.  Just a few miles from the open ocean we were among commercial trollers/sainters and 30-40 sport boats all on the Coho (Silver) and King Salmon run.  Almost at our limits and out of bait we headed in with a good load.  3 Kings and about 10 Silvers.  Remember that you have to clean what you catch so we were okay with not getting more.  That was only one day, the rest of the time we have been bringing in a few here and a few there along with Dungeness crab.

THE KING!

Coho Salmon

Captain Rob and his catch

Crab Cleaning, Onward to Petersburg

There really hasn’t been much else to do and we are just waiting for some more guests to get up here on the boat.  Craig was pretty boring, but the most action we had seen in a while.  Besides fishing we rented movies, went to the community pool, did some food shopping, and even got to go for a drive to some local rivers to do some fly fishing.  We have been pretty lucky as crew, but this doesn’t always happen on other boats.  An easy season to soak in. 

Jordan in the Galley, Crab Feast

After hole in the wall we stopped back in to see our new good friends at El Capitan Fishing Lodge.  The family there is so hospitiple and has all of the right amenities, darts, pool, and libations.  I am sure that you heard about Senetar Stevens fatal Otter Plane crash.  Every year he had a group of people to this lodge and was supposed to be coming in that very next day.  It was very sad to be directly related to the incident and the mood at the lodge was pretty gray.  They felt as though they lost a friend and a very good man.  The money from that week will be donated by the lodge to a fund for the accident. 

Sunset over Sarkar Cove, El Capitan Fishing Lodge

Here in these islands the tides can be pretty extreme.  When you are navigating your way through you have to have a good idea where the water is moving.  If you are in a narrow enough passage and the water is moving against you it is almost like you are going uphill or up a river, if the tide is ebbing then it is the opposite, you are being pushed.  The currents are strong and some of the water can be treacherous if you don’t pay attention.  Once we had high tide that next morning we pulled our anchor and made our way north through the El Capitan passage.  Being such a big boat and towing we wanted to have as much water as possible.  The narrowest part of the passage was only about 40 feet.  They had dug it out to make it passable.  With not a soul in sight, except for your friendly little sea lion we made our way through, navigating the channel markers, and the crystal clear water.  The sun was shining and I felt like I was in heaven.  There were huge mountains coming out of the horizon and a change of scenery to where we had been venturing the last couple of weeks.

Narrow El Capitan Passage

El Capitan Passage Wilderness

Petersburg is a relief to be at.  It is a darling little Norweigen fishing village.  I really think they have always had great planning and building, this town was done right.  It is really small but has a great feel to it.  We have views of Glaciers and wild peaks.  One in particular is called the Devils thumb, a spire rising up to about 10,000 ft….I’m guessing.  The sun sets right over the mountains and ends everyday with a blessing.  There is a large fish processing plant here, which brings in a lot of fishing boats and keeps this economy going.  I have been talking to a couple of the fishing boats and learning a little bit about the business.  Last night we pulled in behind a huge crabber that you would see on the Deadliest catch, the Nordic Express.  They are only crabbing in the winter so they use their summers to be a hub for the fishing boats out in the hot spots.  They will go out and anchor and boats will come and offload to them so they can keep fishing.  He had thousands of pounds of salmon iced down ready to offload.  It was a big boat drawing about 16 feet, im not really sure of the length, 200 feet.

So, I will just be here for the next little while, scronging the local shops, and trying to make it to the mountains for a nice little hike.  We did a big washdown on the inside and outside of the boat today so we are good to sit until we need to.  We will also be fishing for halibut and maybe some prawns for a change.  There is also a huge glacier here that we might adventure too.  I am thankful I can take this whole experience in.  Guests or not, the adventure would be the same.  Where else can the scenery out your window change almost daily?  Wrap your head around that.  I just looked out and saw a bald eagle....  

Sea Otter Wave

Marble Pools