Sitka: Can you hear me now?
By boat, Sitka is pretty darn far out there – for us anyway. To reach Sitka without exposing ourselves to big open ocean, there are a series of narrow and breath-taking passages that wind through, past, and by places like Murder Cove, Peril Strait, Poison Cove, Sergius Narrows, and The Eye Opener (a lone rock,…
Petersburg: Alaska’s Little Norway
At a low slack tide on a Sunday, we carefully meandered through the maze of rocks and day marks that peppered the winding length of Wrangell Pass on our way to Petersburg. Once we arrived, Matthew swung the boat into position for docking on the end tie and I stood on our transom steps, stern line…
Wrangell and the Mysterious Petroglyphs
We arrived in Wrangell on a delightfully sunny afternoon. As we entered the channel behind the breakwater to tie up in Heritage Harbor, a bit south of downtown Wrangell, a new blend of avian sentinels was immediately noticeable compared with the usual marine birds hanging around harbors closer to home: bald eagles and ravens perched…