Pacific NW

Expeditions

Half a dozen tan deer milled about on the pale green grassy shores this morning. I got up early and watched them for several hours. I caught up on world affairs by reading a month-old comics section of the Minneapolis newspaper and “The Onion” while I sipped a mocha and watched the deer. When Justin awoke we weighed anchor and pulled up the crab trap. I love pulling up that trap and watching the strange animals inside come into view from the murky depths below. Today we had 3 crabs in it but they were all females so we had to throw them back. It was a short hop over to Sitka. Justin and I ran over to the post office to pick up letters and packages. We ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant and then walked all over the city. We went out to the University on Japonski Island and let ourselves into the buildings there. We met several students and teachers and played a game of pool in the rec room. “Silent Partner” is a lone sailboat surrounded by thousands of fishing boats at the dock. Most of the fishermen are very friendly. I feel right at home because they all pee off the dock too. In the big cities down south this practice is considered shameful. There, you must first pee into a big bowl of drinking water and then flush it into a pipe that eventually leads to the ocean. As I happily peed over the side of the boat I looked out over the harbor and began to wonder why I’m heading back down to Puget Sound.