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Seldom visits to the Gurdy now, over half of content has been deleted (stored elsewhere) by structure of Google rule-s .... but fail to kill it, connection with blog-kin keeps it up and perchance another pictuere or two someday but for now FaceBook captures the online energy

http://www.facebook.com/jpetraborg

gave in and sort it over there ------->

http://www.myspace.com/pborg

the Gurdy......

I guess it's time to end the "gurdy" with Google....
was highly recommended to "upgrade" to the new beta version for better features and support... but it ended my format of "picture" blogging... after much ado trying to adjust through help menus and Picasa updates I see they've recently added a new note.... "Beta Blogger only supports up to 300mb of photo space" ... thus I can no longer share my "thousands" word way here... so will leave this gurdy in search of a new place... hope to leave a "link" soon... where you can "see" yesterdays sunset, that words fail to describe......

Happy Plants

To come home to... smilin in bloom















Especially if you can eat em..... 

Scenes ....

 

Octopus & Pirates

Finest dining ... bait.
A little coconut sauce deeply saute'd over a simmering oil stove and it's a cross between Abalone and Shrimp... YUM ! - That is the "beak" of the octopus.. they may bite in defense....
The crew chops "Humpies" for our bait... he say's "yum" in disgust.... (they're stinky)

Might also add we caught a halibut that weighed 199 with head/guts removed... thus might have been 260/270 as landed...(or more) we didn't think it was that large so skipped the photo in the slime of the moment... guess Tyler coulda laid next to it for a measurment...

A little touch of.....

Class & Sass..
okay.. som'thin strange ?
While riding the deck into Sitka (strongest magnetic pull) -
A very large dark (black?) PARROT with an extreme forked tail flew overhead . . (this IS Alaska)..... ?
- followed unfortunately quite a ways behind by a Bald Eagle... the eagle was slightly less in size of the parrot.. !
too late for the camera even tho it was near... (didn't expect a friggin parrot !! thought it might be an eagle carrying a salmon)
The excellent eyesight of the crew reported a raptor style rear pounce as they dis-appeared below our horizon.... hmmmm...

Otherwise the show an hour earlier was enthralled young sealions "surfing" over the breaking Cameron Pass Rock...
(we "quit" due to big waves this day)
ev'ry day is something different....

This young bruin is currently occupied in the estuary ...

Thanks to "Solketcher" for braving to get near for these photos, take your binoculars if you want to see him "up close" as these guys are hungry this year with too few berries on the bush.... might wanna leave the pooch in the car too....

A tale heard in our famous pub yesterday included a guy and a skiff at the beach with a baited crab pot getting stolen by a bear while his back was turned... but the guy managed to grab the buoy line and "tug-of-war" with the thief until it was relenquished and the vanquished bear scampered back into the forest....
Apparently someone has this on video...

Hops tree;


 

Golf Stance

 

Potluck

Nowhere else I've ever been that embodies the spirit of community as an Southeast Alaska "Potluck" ...we gather for feast and festivities... usually music late into the night follows.. These events can be impromptu any day, the above potluck is an organised "Troll Open/Closure" Golf Tournament after-effect...

P.A. 

a Bike Hangin'

Luckily a bike and not a boat as the dock drops away with the ebbing tide..... (careful whatcha tie to)..... 

Sharing Perspective, image this

Awoke yesterday to a spectacular orange moon glowing surreal on the horizon, stumbling along in duties at 0332hrs, I fail to find the camera... (seen this moon before)... shortly after the gear is set I learn of a boat (the one in above photo) taking on water a few miles south of us... his engines are gone and pumps are getting delivered via CG helio service... morning was nice but weatherman predicts off again (did I mention the barometer fell)? as the lump builds and winds peak @ 30 knots southeasterly... the bite was "on" yesterday so nobody is anxious to assist the sinking packer... needing a tow. Not finding hot fishing we decide to "surf" with the wind/waves toward home, some find this active ocean frightening, others exhilarant... I think the fish like it. .... along the way while running a line happily whistlin a merry tune cresting a roller am guessing 16 feet tip to trough... ! lo & behold a HUGE (up close they are that BIG) Humpback Whale breaches nearly clear of the water not 20 feet away narrowly missing the staybilizer fin on the port pole !! and I do mean under the pole... the incredible WHUMP and splash brought my son out to watch a succesion of half breaches as this one misses tangling with trolling lines.... gotta love it !

Several years ago a beautiful old sailboat, name of the Merlin was holed and sunk by a humpback... it was raised and drydocked, somewhere in the achives I have a picture of 3 of us standing in the puncture...... we gotta wonder when these powerhouses jump so near.... an awesome wonder.
chk out the Merlin tale;
http://www.48north.com/feb2000/merlin1.htm

Gone Fishin.....

 

Just had ta post expressively..
steppin to the march...
trollin with the jig....
peeece . 

Summer Dress

After a few days out on the ocean..
the shock of town once again....
.... !
parades & fireworks still....

Sun is "out" in Sitka, 

Fore & Aft

Hot weather predominates this volley... hear it's "rain rain" at home,
- and gunshots heard last evening as I'm camped in Tacoma , the Wild Wild West ! 

just "goin".....

After visiting some of the friendliest folk in Colorado (from Delta to Paonia), there's little marked as registered on the chart into Vernal Utah, where there's not a single motel room found due to the Oil Boom as gas prices rise, but on hwy 191 north through hills and canyons for 105 miles to Rock Springs Wyoming is some of N. Americas most gorgeous scenery... wildlife along the way too... posted "Keep out" by the Navaho nation... (nothings sacred)... but still I'd highly recommend this route... 

Mammoth & Ol Faithful

Lo - I saw it "blow" on the ride in... but impending rain and nightfall didn't allow another 94 minutes til next eruption... views are outstanding thu Tetons and Yellowstone... did see pronghorns, bison, coyotes (within 4 feet), 2 speicies of deer, a grizzly feeding on an elk, numerous furry scamperers and birds of interest.... oh, and lots and lotsa people, fences, signs and fees... impossible to get a "spot" to camp (legally)..... 

Public Transit

 

Last week's supply

Images (like me) seem to be acting up........ on the way & at - --> Telluride Colorado..... 

No complaint ! it's all good :)

Ewww Uuuu, Ewww Uuuu Uuuu Uuuu,
Ewww Uuuu, Ewww Uuuu Uuuu.....

sing this if ya don't think likewise......

RESTurANT

860 some miles logged one day, 112 degrees and I drink my 1st Dr.Pepper (inalongtime) with a man whom shares his song to his first ever audience, miles of "I don't know what" & thousands of wind generators in Palm Springs - I get handed a report 1 ol' woman owns the valley thay all reside in and she's one hellufa "high stakes" gambler in Vegas... Tip o' my visor to the motorcycle cops on the LA Freeways - those guys are magical masters on BMW's... awesomely impressed doesn't say enuf.... Southern AZ has been a HOT land of "NO shadows" but see a shadow now as I put a foot onto 4 States today.... Dinner tonight of quality beef and brew but the "special" salmon is "farmed" !! - manager/owner tells me "there's no mercury in it" in rebuttal... 

views

.... the "shade" this construction guy uses as a hat, and note to Howard E. that I have no worries bout the Austin cops catchin my Wing if I need to run.... hear em comin anyway.....