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Easter on Home Turf
It’s been a while, but we’re on an orienteering road trip with all four members of DipidyDoo. We aren’t overseas, but we have left home to compete in the Australian Easter 3 Days, which is in north central Victoria. It’s the first time in a loooong time that Ian has entered Easter, although the other […]
2025
Time to post about our plans for this year; we have spent quite a long time deciding but airfares are now booked and we’ve found some great places to stay. Rule no 1: southern Europe is a no-no at the time we are travelling (having learned the hard way). Following Ian’s successful completion of his […]
Sydney City Race Weekend 2
Onto the main event. An early start was required, as start times were between 8am and 10am. We were both at the latter end of the start draw, but we left in plenty of time to walk from Circular Quay to the arena at Observatory Hill. The Carnival Splendour cruise ship was in, busily disengorging […]
Sydney City Race Weekend
Ian and I are in Sydney this weekend, purely for orienteering – specifically, the first Sydney City Race. It took them 5 years to copy us, but they have gone all out with a $1000 prize for the outright winner. We just had to come and run it, being the ones who introduced the popular […]
Dreams lost in the mist.
Tuesday 17th September Lat Unknown. Long, Unknow. Lost in fog and rain for the last 36 hours all we saw were the ghosts of cruise ships passing in the fog and nothing else until about 4pm to day when the rain cleared enough for us to see the famous Port Hardy light house entrance to the […]
Misty Fjord.
Mon 16th Sept. Misty Fjord 55.66N 130.68W It was a fjord. It was misty. It was wet. I was wet and so was the eagle. All this before breakfast. Ilze chose wisely to stay in bed. Pete
Wettest Wife in Wrangell
Wrangell 56.47 N 132.38 W Why did we bother with Wrangell. Only because the ship came here. No one else bothers. The only way in and out is via the small Ferry. It rains almost every day. The Chiefs lodge was a one quarter scale replica built in 1947 outside which we stood in the […]
Safe and Sound in Sitka
Sitka 57.05 N 135.34 W After yet another night of being tossed around on the high seas of the Gulf of Alaska we woke to a glorious sunny day, after too many days of cold, high wind, fog, and high seas and sailed into Sitka Sound ringed by volcanoes including the looming Mt Edgecombe. Our […]
Icy Bay. Alaska 58.57N 141.29W
Friday 13th September 59.57N 141.26W After another rough night crossing from Kodiak Island to the mainland Ilze and I spent a happy few hours on shore in the town of Seward. We visited several unusual places that included the Blue Moose gift shop, the Sew N. Bee Quilt shop and Safeway supermarket. Who knew. Back […]
Just Bearable.
Tuesday 10th September 58.05 N. 154.32 W. Today begins two of the days that will be one of the highlight of this trip. The search for bears in Geographic Harbour part of the Katmai National Park and tomorrow morning we sail deep into Uganik Sound on Kodiak Island. We dream of opportunities like these and […]
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