Alaska Summary and thoughts
Alaska was a stunning trip. The wildlife, the glaciers and the sheer distance made the trip so memorable. We made new friends and had...
Welcome to Adventures of CODA. This is the travel log of Steve Olsson. Travelling with Barbara (his sister) on a 43 foot American Tug.
Alaska was a stunning trip. The wildlife, the glaciers and the sheer distance made the trip so memorable. We made new friends and had...
I returned from Seattle to find everything on Coda doing just fine. I once again joined the on-going san wandering flotilla in Blind Bay...
With the proper paperwork filed on the CBP application we called into the boarder protection hot line and were approved for arrival with...
14 hours -- that is a long day at the helm solo. It was nice to pull into home territory. Well at least it felt close to home. After a...
Desolation Sound was the next destination prior to hitting Straits of Georgia again. There was a bit of anxiety after our transit...
Dent Rapids is an area where one must be cautious and time the slack. We ended up waiting for over an hour to transit the rapids but it...
On the long trek back to Desolation Sound we decided to treat ourselves to an evening at Blind Bay. I was here before also and it is a...
I really enjoyed Kwatsi bay last time and even though we heard it had closed, we stopped in to see what was happening. There was a sign...
Pierre no longer owns Pierre's echo bay. He sold it. I was anxious to see how things were going there. I realize that the clientele...
We stayed on the outer docks in Port Hardy and we rocked and rolled all night long. The wind and waves were still bad from the weather...
We woke up at a leisurely hour, anchor holding sound in the protection of Fury Cove. We had accumulated several more boats throughout...
We departed on-time and it was a beautiful day. Tonia took this picture of Coda pulling out of Bella Bella and set to arrive at the...
Up again at 6:00 AM this time and a run to Bella Bella At this point we were rushing to make the weather window at Cape Caution and...
Hartley Bay is a long haul from Prince Rupert but we were starting to look at the weather and we were looking for a window to cross Cape...
After the long passage and being allowed into the country, we decided to take a day to explore Prince Rupert. There was the shipping...
We were anxious to see if we could go ashore after we checked in. The trip was 11 hours straight and since Barb had flown out of...
A relaxing departure time, after Coffee and kayaking around looking for starfish (Tonia's Pastime as of late) we departed our calm...
It is hard to conceive of the distance between the east coast of Baranof Island to Ketchikan. This is now the second anchorage and...
Well it was time to leave Baranof Island and start back to Ketchikan. Barb had some business to attend to so we had to be back to drop...
We just woke up and decided to leave early. I did not sleep we because the anchorage was not great but the run yesterday was 8 hours and...