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Welcome to Adventures of CODA.  This is the travel log of Steve Olsson. Travelling with Barbara (his sister) on a 43 foot American Tug.

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Long Way Home

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...

Pushing to get back to Seattle

Desolation Sound was the next destination prior to hitting Straits of Georgia again. There was a bit of anxiety after our transit...

Blind Bay

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...

Kwatsi, and Lagoon Cove

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...

Off to the Broughton Islands

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...

Rockin' and Rollin' in Port Hardy

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...

Cape Caution, take two

We woke up at a leisurely hour, anchor holding sound in the protection of Fury Cove. We had accumulated several more boats throughout...

Cape Caution smack down

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...

Bella Bella

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...

Off to Hartley Bay

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...

A day to relax in Prince Rupert

After the long passage and being allowed into the country, we decided to take a day to explore Prince Rupert. There was the shipping...

Prince Rupert and the Customs Dock

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...

Rocky Narrows -- Don't Go there

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...

Red Bay and another surprise

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...

Red Bluff

Red Bluff is a deep bay with a narrow passage into the back harbor. The banks of the entrance are brick red and I suppose that is where...

Warm Springs

Well Guess what we found here? We went here because we heard that there were warm Springs. We tried to stay at the dock but it was very...

Takatz

Just a short 2 hour hop south was Takatz Bay. This was a very deep bay and very popular. I loved the narrow entrance to the back part...

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