Ok, my brother is asking for a blog post. Here's some of our favorite pictures from the 10 day kayaking trip we did in May. Last year we did a fair amount of the western Prince William Sound. This year we went from the village of Chenega Bay across the Southern barrier islands to Cordova. It being May, the vegetation hadn't grown too thick yet so we had good places to camp. We also were able to stay 3 nights in forest service cabins on Montague and Hitchenbrook Islands. That was a sweet bonus. The weather was amazing, it sprinkled lightly for about 5 minutes twice just as we were going to bed. Other than that we had sun. It was sometimes a bit windy but we had calm waters for our big open water seven mile crossing that had us pretty nervous. There were no mosquito bites on the trip. The only negative was that I was taking an antibiotic that made me super sun sensitive. It took until about the 5th day of 22 hours of daylight on the water before I figured out why sunblock wasn't working. I did major damage to my face and hands. Other than that, the trip was amazing. Between the three of us we took thousands of pictures. I've added a link to the abridged version and cut them down even more for the blog. Enjoy!
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| Putting the boats on the ferry. |
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| On the ferry to Chenega Bay. |
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| The Russion Orthodox church at Chenega Bay. |
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| Packed and ready to leave... |
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| Really nice shot by Rich. |
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| We portaged the boats over this grassy area to explore a twisty back area. |
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| Shipwreck at Hitchenbrook entrance. |
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| One of our many cush campsites. |
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| A wrecked boat Drew wanted to take home. |
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| That's a big bear print...glad we didn't run into him. |
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| Making dinner. Rich and I made some pretty good meals, but Drew showed us up with four unaltered recipes from Bon Apetit magazine. |
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| Spent a lazy warm afternoon napping and reading on the beach like we were at the jersey shore or something. |
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| All the seal and otter pups were so cute! |
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| A couple we ran into after 9 days without talking to anyone. They invited us over to their off the grid home for barbecued oysters and king crab salad. |
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| Pulling up oysters off the dock for dinner. |
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| Yay! A long imagined dinner in Cordova materialized as burgers, fries, and shakes from the Picnic Basket in Cordova. |
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| For just having a branch in Cordova, they had a pretty nice building. |
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| Didn't really think about where to camp in Cordova...so we ended up just off the road by the ferry terminal...classy, I know. |
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| When we talked about food we wanted on the trip, Corn Pops was high on my list. I got some for breakfast on the ferry ride from Cordova to Whittier. |
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| Leaving Cordova. |
