Aboard the Kennicott: Ferry Travel in Alaska

Aboard the Kennicott: Ferry Travel in Alaska

My next adventure is ferry travel in Alaska aboard the Kennicott ferry. Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, was rain-free as our small boat came alongside the dock, towered over by the floating hotels vying for space along the port.  I was sad to leave the small ship...

Arts and Crafts

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Black Spruce Salve

Black Spruce Salve

My intrigue with tree sap began unknowingly many years ago in my Australian childhood. Fascinated by the shiraz-colored sap that oozed from Jarrah trees, I would take a stick to the sticky fluid. Bursting bubbles of crystalized sap and scraping away at the giant trees...
Small Ship South East Alaska

Small Ship South East Alaska

I left Ketichan on a tiny cruise ship with fifty passengers.  The cruise ship would let us kayak and hike each day and would slowly make its way up to Juneau.  I had never been on any kind of cruise before and had never spent so much on accommodation and...
Dinner Bells

Dinner Bells

Doug dropped me off and agreed to retrieve me in a few days. I was finally at peace. The mixed forest of spruce, hemlock, and cedar seemed enchanted, and a clear water creek flowed over mossy stones and out into the bay. Pieces of driftwood decorated the gravelly...