Sailing the seven seas with my friend Larry!
Category: Puget Island
Harvesting Puget Island Honey
Today we started the process of harvesting honey this week. As you can see there is and escape board placed under the first two honey supers. When the bees leave the super at night to protect the queen they can’t go back up into the supers because the escapes are one way. Tomorrow I will…
Fall Has Arrived
Here are some photos of the fall sunsets and sunrises here on the Lower Columbia River.
A Jump On Summer
The last few days we had a few of our grand kids down by the river side with us. We did a little of everything and had a blast!! Excavating our sandy beach, sailing the seven seas, fishing, kayaking and rowing. Needless to say a good time had by all.
Osprey Platform – Planted
A good friend of mine pulled some strings and secured a power pole. Today another good friend and his brother backed in their auger/pole truck, dug the hole and planted the pole. I’m hopeful that when the Osprey pair return to this platform they will accept it and start adding branches to it. This is…
New Osprey Platform
A few weeks ago we had a serious blower on Puget Island. It was so bad that it blew the top 10’ of the tree and the Osprey platform down. The tree was badly rotted so I had it removed. This is a problem because in less than three weeks my Osprey pair will be…
Cedar Bar
The last week I was asked by a local logger to takes two 8’ red cedar slabs and two pine poles and build him a 42” high liquor bar. It was finished with 4 coats of clear epoxy resin and 3 coats of Spar varnish.
Slough Coot
I bought a Cape Henry 21 from Phil Hitchcock. Phil and his wife, Margret, live in Michigan and towed this sail boat across the U.S. to us. During their week and a half with Jody and I, we got the “Slough Coot” launched and moored on Welcome Slough and have been tour guiding them around our beautiful Oregon and Washington…
Marina – Roof Trusses
Today the trusses showed up! By 5pm my good friends and I had them set.
River Traffic and Steelhead
This morning I was on the river early trying my luck at catching a steelhead. As we were fishing, a small US Coast Guard ship was making way up the Columbia river to join a number of other ships for the annual Portland Rose Festival celebration. Soon after, we saw another smaller USCG Cutter and a Brusco tug towing…