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26 March 2009
Whales
Footage of whales we’ve seen since we left Canada, including some enormous Blue Whales.
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12 March 2009
Pelicans
Video of brown pelicans feeding along with some Heermann’s Gulls and Boobies. Begins in Caleta San Juanico and ends in Bahia Agua Verde (literally the “bay of green water”).
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11 March 2009
Wildlife Repellant Failure
One of the maddening things about living on a cruising boat is that things break. All the time. Something is always on the blink, needing work or just plain broken. However, sometimes that’s not as bad as other times.
The most recent thing to decide to fail on board is the Wildlife Repellant feature of our [...]
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15 January 2009
Jumping Rays
Great footage of jumping rays in Caleta Partida, Mexico.
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28 November 2008
San Diego
After Dana Point, we stopped at Oceanside for a night, then anchored in Mission Bay the following night. Mission Bay was lovely – a free, protected anchorage just north of San Diego Bay. We would have happily stayed there a few days, but we were meeting Bob and Gay (the previous owners of Scream) in [...]
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27 October 2008
Crew List
You may think that Scream’s crew is small, but you would be sorely mistaken. In fact we have more crew members than you’d think would fit. Here’s a brief introduction to the rest of the crew:
Gen. George S. Patton (aka Ol’ Blood and Guts) – Gen. Patton is our 64 HP Perkins engine. Like most [...]
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10 September 2008
Big Adventure: Day 1
Scream departed Canada for our world tour today. We left Cadboro Bay in the morning and motored to Port Angeles, where we cleared US customs. The weather is sunny and warm and the crew are in good spirits. We will post more regularly now that we are underway.
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1 August 2008
2008 Petersen Cup
Scream had the great pleasure to partcipate in the 2008 Petersen Cup. The Petersen cup is s a cruising rally held every year by the Bluewater Cruising Association to honour the memory of Lex Petersen (?-2004). The rally starts on the last Saturday in July at the Dinghy Dock Pub in Nanaimo.
This year [...]
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12 July 2008
Alert Bay
Alert Bay is a mixed native and non-native community on Comorant Island. We visited the big house where we were educated by the Tsasala Cultural Group.
We also visited the excellent U’mista cultural centre. There we viewed a large collection of artifacts, including all of the items seized in the Christmas Potlach Raid.
We thoroughly enjoyed Alert [...]
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2 July 2008
Mamalilacula
Scream visited the remains of Mamalilacula, an abandoned first nations village infamous as the site of the Christmas Potlach Raid.
There isn’t much to see in Mamalilacula. The whole place is overgrown with wild roses and blackberry bushes. I strongly recommend visitors wear long sleeves and pants and gardening gloves to protect against the thorns. There [...]
