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The
SeaNile locked and loaded 8:00 am
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The
weather breaks for a beautiful day on Hood Canal
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Stacking the gear...
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Final
gear check by the Shrimpinator ...
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Countdown to the first set at 9:00am !
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Lots of
color in the pots!
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First
pull 240
shrimp on the deck.
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The
pots keep coming up FULL!
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A hitchhiker in the
pot
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Sunset on a fabulous
Shrimp season.
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May 17th
and our 2010 voyage to Glacier Bay Alaska begins
with Tacoma
off our stern.
1st stop
Victoria B.C.
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The Bella with
signal flags for Brad. |
Judy and Brad
arrive for the trip north!
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The Bella and the
Empress. |
Brads retirement
and Birthday cake on board.
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Brads FREE! |
Deciphering the
signal flags |
May 24th
2010
Seymour Narrows to Forward Bay!
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The Bella gives a
tow to the Amigo lll at Ripple Point.
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Arrival at Forward
Bay! |
Grizzly Bears
greet us on the beach. |
Mama bear
looking for dinner.
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& baby bear
admiring the Bella...
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Morning
Coffee was a little chilly... |
Grandmas blankets
came in real handy! |
Crab at Duncanby/
Goose Bay.
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5 star dinning on
the Bella!
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Port Hardy Fish N
Chips! |
Halibut
from our trip to Pine Island 10 miles
outside Port Hardy
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Judy on the hunt! |
What's for
dinner?
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A Humpback on the
way to Bella Bella.
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June 3rd
2010
Bella Bella to Lowe Inlet
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At anchor in Lowe
Inlet. |
Fishing boats
moved in for the night
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A Humpback whale
gives a wave on our
way to Ketchikan
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And a wag of the
tail.
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A perfect day in
Grenville Channel |
A boat for Lisa
and Don! |
June 10th
2010
Prince Rupert to Ketchikan
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The Bella rubbing
shoulders with the "Pearl"
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Looking for some
fish in Ketchikan...in all the wrong places!
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The Long House at
Totem Bight Ketchikan
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Tlinget dancers
in the Long House
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Misty Fjords
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Mountains of
solid rock. |
The Punch Bowl. |
If you look real
close a pair of nesting eagles at the very top.
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June 16th
2010
Arrive in Wrangell
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A fiery sunset to
welcome us to Wrangell.
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The Bella at the
Wrangell docks. |
The Big Ruckus
ready for it's first trip ashore.
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20 Miles south we
found Pats Lake with Middle ridge in the background. |
A photo
opportunity on the way up to Middle Ridge,
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The forestry
cabin at Middle Ridge. |
A Wrangell house
boat or a boat house?
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Petroglyphs on
the beach. |
June 21 st
2010
Arrive in Juneau
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Whales ON the
bow!!!
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HEY!!! I GOT THE
RIGHT THE WAY!!! |
Hey wait your
forgot to smile!!!!
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Excuse me ma'am
while I rinse your camera... |
Two fisherman on
an iceberg- just another
day on the Bella!
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June 24th
2010
Arrive in Skagway
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The Bella in the
harbor at Skagway.
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Looking North at
the White Pass route to Dawson City and the Yukon goldfields
form the Skagway Harbor.
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Looking South to
the cruise boat docks and Chilkoot
Inlet form Skagway Harbor..
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An overview of
the town harbor from Smugglers Cove.
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Peaceful Dyea Bay
9 miles NW of Skagway this was the start of
the Chilkoot Trail
that lead to Dawson and the goldfields some
600 miles away. Now
not a trace of the boom town that
sprang up overnight in 1898!
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The Chilkoot
trailhead at Dyea now a peaceful and unassuming place-but in
1898 it was kayos and overrun with some 100,000 fortune
seekers. But by the time the "Stampeder 's" had arrived in Dyea,
a staggering 1000 miles from Seattle, and were ready to start
this next leg of their legendary & epic journey -most of the
gold and claims in the Yukon had already been found and staked.
Ultimately only a handful of Stampeder's ever turned a shovel
looking for the promised gold of the Yukon.
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A view
of Dead Horse Gulch where several hundred
horses died packing
the required 1 ton of supplies for
each "Stampeder" up the White
Pass route to Dawson City
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The
actual trail of 1898 still visible in one of the easiest
portions of the crossing. |
Rented a
car and drove 115 miles to Whitehorse in the
Yukon Territory
still 500 miles upriver from Dawson City.
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A black
bear alongside the spectacular Yukon Highway
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The
beautifully restored Klondike stern wheeler located in
Whitehorse. This 240 footed moved mountains of men and
supplies
to Dawson City during the gold rush era and long
afterwards. She
was also the first ship in the world to use
containers for
shipping cargo!
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The
first class passengers viewing and game parlor. |
The
wheelhouse and note the Captains color Coordinated!
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The
engine room -note the massive drive piston on the portside
bulkhead. |
Spectacular scenery along the Yukon Highway
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Vistas
that go on forever.
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We take
a remarkable day trip to Frasier and the
Canadian border on the
restored White Pass Train line
following most of the original
White Pass Trail.
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We pass
the Grave Yard of the gold rush Stampeder's |
A
trestle and tunnel we will pass through an the
way to the 3300'
summit.
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The view
from the trestle and back down to where we were 1500' feet
below.
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Arriving
at Frasier and Canadian customs
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The view
of Skagway half way up the pass.
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