Shilshole Blog

I’m looking for recommendations on good places to sail to, where you can go ashore and take a good hike. I know of Port Blakely, where you can take a walk through the woods up to the cemetery, and Blake Island, which has lots of nice trails. Other places, longer hikes?
Preferrably close to Seattle, but anything would be interesting.

So, I’ve created a new category for the Shilshole Blog: Lost & Found!

I’ll start with this announcement:

This afternoon, in shower stall C (rightmost) of the M-2 building (by E-dock), I found a necklace with black beads and a little silver-ish pendant. It seems to be broken, but it might have some emotional value…

Respond here if you’ve lost it.

I think its been a long while since I wrote to you. Must have been Suva, Fiji?
I left Suva and spent a couple days at a surf camp with some Aussie friends on an islands who’s name I can’t remember at the moment. Then I worked my way to Western Fiji and the cruiser’s meeting place, Musket Cove. Musket Cove is a cruiser friendly resort on a tiny island surrounded by coral reefs. Continue Reading »

Last night I noticed some “fishy” activity in the basin between the breakwater and the ends of piers C, D and E. It looked like the entire Pacific fishing fleet (well, at least half a dozen fishing boats) was doing some kind of scavenger hunt. Alas, I was too lazy to walk all the way to the end of the dock, and the Webasto purr beckoned me inside.

Did anyone see what was really going on?

… as seen through the eyes of a Newsweek reporter.