 Sometimes when we anchor we pull up a bit of kelp, but a few days ago we pulled up a kelp forest. Time away from internet, with no way to step off the boat, gave me ample time to finish these two drawings featuring many of the Hakum characters. The first is a version of the group when they're a bit younger, the other is of the expanded group with a few more years on! Still desperately looking for somewhere, anywhere, to stay outside the EU's Schengen zone (UK, Ireland, USA, Tangier), from the last week of July. Alt Text Selfies an interesting collection of alternative text examples for selfies, that explores the way people describe themselves and other, beyond visual description. Some go can blend smell, taste, touch, sound, and more.  Here is the total path for the trip we did through Southeast Alaska, from Prince Rupert and back, this past month :)...  We are doing well. We left Sitka and sailed offshore, stopping twice to anchor, and did two overnight sails. Had a bit of engine trouble, managed to fix it. We had good weather to start, but the sail through Dixon Entrance was very rough. More on all this later. We have arrived back into Canada, Pino is docked in Prince Rupert. We are tired and tired. It had been a LONG time since we've done an overnight sail. The first was very nice, with calm seas, good wind, and so much wild life! We stopped pointing out breaching whales to each other because there were so many. I saw a puffin for the first time, many sea otters, and lots of black-footed albatrosses(they're so big)! The second was in big weather, with rough seas... not as relaxing. I cooked some okonomiyaki in the solar cooker today! Evidently, I ended up with a sort of tube, not a flat pancake, but it cooked well. I spooned out chunks of it, divided it into two bowls, poured some sauce and green onions overtop đ :vegan: âïž Okonomiyaki recipe: I really didn't expect to be able to solar cook while in Southeast Alaska, I thought it'd be cloudy and rainy all the time (it was when we first arrived in early June). We've had a full week of sun. I was able to cook brown rice yesterday, as well as split green peas and seitan. Some ice stranded on land, as well as a tiny glimpse of Baird Glacier. It is crazy to think of just how far glaciers used to extend in Southeast Alaska. There is a reason that the entrance to each glacier arm is bordered by a bar(a shallow rock and gravel bank). The bar marks the point of greatest advance of the glaciers during the last ice age. The glaciers pushed gravel and boulders, then receded, leaving the bar behind. Ursula Le Guin: âA child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.â
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@spencerbeswick Is that a quote from "The Dispossessed", or where can I find it in context? Thanks in advance!   @spencerbeswick Yeah. When I get called by a scammer I ask them "do you feel happy when you wake up in the morning knowing that you are going to have to spend your day trying to scam people?". I don't usually get to the end before they hang up, though. When you exit Wrangell Narrows, as the land falls away, you are rewarded with a most beautiful sight. Hello Petersburg~! Yesterday, we tested our anchor retrieval system for when we have a lot of rope rode out(friction knot around rope with a line led back to a cockpit winch to hoist it), in very difficult conditions. Taking a day off today, to recuperate. While setting the anchor, I put my sunglasses behind me on the deck, I had them on my head and was afraid they'd slip and fall in the water.  @rek feels like damned if you do, damned if you don't with those kind of "safe places" sometimes haha I'm actually glad the wind is up and that the weather is shit out there today, at least I can spend some time on personal projects. Also, we feel a bit less hurried to go north fast because we've finally arrived in Southeast Alaska. Most of the month of May was spent sailing, in evenings I didn't have energy for anything other than writing the day's happenings in my logbook. Today, I spent some time gathering notes for a future Wiktopher book, bits of story, characters, etc. Unfortunately, all of the incessant heavy rain and winds we've been having since arriving in Ketchikan, has revealed 2 leaks aboard. One from the mast (my pants were hanging there to dry but instead imbided all of the water leaking out of there), the other from the deck iron for the woodstove. Last winter, we had frequent below freezing temperatures, which caused the wood of the deck iron ring to expand, and crack, now water creeps in. Another project for our return to Victoria in the fall. Released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for May 2024. Pino is now in Ketchikan (SE Alaska).  Friends of ours on the sailboat Moonshine took this photo of us as we sailed out of Port McNeill, in Queen Charlotte Strait. We were on our way to Millbrook Cove, just around Cape Caution, on May 20th. It is very rare to have photos of Pino from afar, with full sails :)... Hey Merveilles :tealheart: (I will @ a couple people in private subpost below but feel free to reach out if you are from community and would like to meet đ)  @mayaks I'm not in berlin, but there's a permacomputing meetup happening in a few days, I saw it in the mailing list, did you see? Our sailing trajectory thus far. I update our route whenever we find internet (like today, yay!).
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 Leg 3 of our trip in progress :). We are currently in Prince Rupert(54°18âČ46âłN, 130°19âČ31âłW), to do laundry, re-stock on a few things, before we head off into SE Alaska. @rek Thank you for sharing your trip and keeping it up to date. What do you use to plot these charts? Is it also built with uxn? |
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