Know your chief asset, your great talent.

Cultivate it, and help along the others. Anyone might have attained eminence in something, had he but known his advantage. Discover therefore your best attribute, and exploit it fully. Some excel in judgment, others in courage. Most violate their Minerva, and thus rise to the heights in nothing. For what is too quick in satisfying the passion is too late in pointing out its error. - Baltasar Gracian, 1647

Outdoors
Beaches You've Been To. Or Not.

Beaches You’ve Been To. Or Not.

So we did it again. Our class went out into Resurrection Bay. We stayed within a day of Seward. This time we sailed on Lindsay II, anchored up in some pretty amazing places and spent some time exploring the shore. Bear Glacier at Bulldog Cove is great. I got up in the middle of the...
I'm your captain.

I’m your captain.

OK I have to admit. I didn’t take the cover photo of Yebo (the sailboat). Sailing Inc. did. In exchange, I’ll put them on my blogroll. Deal? Eloise says I’ve talked about sailing the world since she’s known me. I don’t recall ever telling her. It’s funny how she sees sides of me I hardly...
Snowshoin' Turnagain Paws

Snowshoin’ Turnagain Paws

Every winter we find plenty back country skiers, snowmobiles and snowshoers tearing it up in Turnagain pass – the best rest-stop after Girdwood heading south on the Seward Highway. This year you can add a 12-pound dauschuahua named Isla to that list. She floated like a rabbit and pounced like a fox over the heavy...
Aurora Borealis Over Anchorage

Aurora Borealis Over Anchorage

Eloise forwarded the message that we were going hunting. She found on SpaceWeather website a note that levels would reach a 4 for Alaska, which is good. “This is worth being tired tomorrow.” She said as I set up a camera tripod at a secret spot in South Anchorage. Sure enough, around 9pm, we started...

Fishing the Hub

If you live in Anchorage, your first choice for fishing is probably out-of-town. That may be about to change. By summer of 2011, the new William Jack Hernandez hatchery will be raising its first stock of rainbow trout and grayling destined for waters in the metro area. These fish will be released and swimming wild...

Likeness of Mona

It is a good year for Mona, the 700 pound brown bear. She birthed a rare three-cub litter near the cove this spring. The cove is their domain, but oddly they don’t mind as long as we stay in the boat. When I say “The Cove” I mean one of the most plentiful areas for...