Posts from ‘June, 2009’

We spent the first leg of our trip in Lake county, north of Clear Lake in Northern California. I hadn’t been to this place before, and I’m sure glad we made the trek out there! We met my step-brother and his half-brother and we spent the whole weekend four wheeling and cruising around in his [...]

I’ve been in California for a couple of days now. It’s nice to be here, but the truck is packed and we are out of here. Even at this point the details of this trip are completely up in the air. I only today realized that I was headed to a National Park on 4th [...]

I’m off the boat now, it’s been another great rotation on the Sea Lion. I kept pretty busy this go around, but I also made time for some pretty cool things. Fishing was a kick, and I learned a bit about what to do the next time around. Halibut definitely like squid and squid [...]

It’s been a good go for me up here in Alaska. Six weeks goes by so quickly! What seems like just the other day, I was making my way up here. Now I’m headed back. I haven’t had much of a chance to talk to my daughter, but the tentative plan is to head out [...]

Yesterday I purchased my Alaska state week fishing license with the hope of catching some Halibut and got off to a good start. It started with a pretty good size fish around noon, but I got a bit a head of myself and ended up losing it. Once the fish got up to where it [...]

On Saturday we made it out to my favorite place of all that we go to. Ford’s Terror is a small inlet off of Endicott Arm that has quite the selection of waterfalls for my viewing pleasure. There’s 4000 foot cliffs lining either side and waterfalls every 1/2 mile or so along the whole length. [...]

We got some bad news and some good news from the office today, and it’s creating quite a stir on the boat right now.
The bad news is that the boat I currently work on the National Geographic Sea Lion will not be returning to Baja after we are done with shipyard this year as [...]