BUDDY BOATING - Bottleneck and Khutze Inlets

Wendy and Bill saying good night after dinner on Tom and Kay's boat, Alaskan Sea-Duction.

Another beautiful sunset at anchor.

Alaskan Sea-Duction will slip off from the group in the morning. They are heading for Alaska.

Took the boats out of gear to give the whales some room.

Large pod of orca killer whales on June 14th of Swindle Island.
This picture only shows six... there was like two dozen! Very Kewl!

Brunch in the pilot house while underway.

Cone Island in the distance.... another sunny day :-)

Sea Badger in the lead today, heading past Cone Island, an extinct volcano. 

Inside Bottleneck Inlet

The navionics chart plotter, 0 knots whale watching.

Wendy heading over, in her kayak, in her bermuda shorts on another rainy day.
I do believe Bill and Wendy have gone "looney".

A visit from our new friends, Wendy and Bill from Victoria, B.C.

Sea Badger at the falls off Sarah Island.

 What an incredible day!

After leaving Bottleneck... The destination was Khutze Inlet.
The waters were very calm in here making for a leisure cruise.

John's trying out his rain suit to go crabbing.

There was a group of Nordhavn's traveling on our course on there way to a rendezvous in Alaska.

Another great scenic view and Sea Badger.

Cleaning crab oh, joy!

These are all the halves, waiting to be cooked up.

Our Friend Kay

Bagging and tagging crab for the freezer! I had triplets!

He's from New Zealand, she's from Turkey... the doggie is along for the ride.

BUDDY BOATING ....Port McNeill, Shearwater, B.C.

Thursday, June 9th, (day 72) Heading out for more buddy boating :-)

Another tug towing a huge log barge... looks like an island!

Port McNeill

We are behind Sea Badger. The marina staff brought the fuel to us.

Very beautiful tree at the park by the visitor's center.

This was our view from the deck where we went OUT for lunch! A young bald eagle. Look at that sky!

After lunch, this Camargue Yacht Fisher pulled in behind us.
And of course, It's John's buddy from Trawler Forum.
John's been following his blog for appx 18 months.

Tom and Kay on Alaskan Sea-Duction
We met up on our boat for poo-poo's and introductions with Bill and Wendy.

John and Tom

After another fine meal ashore, the motley crew: Tracey, John, Tom, Kay, Bill, Wendy
The great photo was by the compliments of our server.

Alaskan Sea-Duction's pilot house.

The after dinner sunset party was great fun.

We walked the docks taking pictures of natures beauty.

Tom and John calling it quits? The rest of us are off to bed. This is what 11pm looks like up here.

Pulling out of our dock at Port McNeill, leaving Alaskan Sea-Duction behind to get to Alaska.
This post is incomplete due to wifi limitations. So have a second look in a month or so. Captions and the rest of the cool photos should be in by then. Khultze Inlet with all it's crab is yet to come.

AIS radar tracking 

Difficult to hold the camera still.

Summer in the Pacific North West