Many of you may or may not know Fran Reisner. Fran is a major award winning photographer and had a successful studio in Frisco, TX. Fran was and is an incredible mentor of mine. She was there when I had no clue what I was doing...I hope you will follow along on her blog, or at least catch on occasional update I post here! Here images and travel stories are incredible! She's on a sailboat off the west coast for several months seeing the world!

Those of you who are regular readers here, know we lost Sadie while preparing to round the north end of Vancouver Island for our journey down the west side. At the time, I didn’t really care whether we continued or not, I was so wrought with emotion over her loss. A few more days waiting out the weather didn’t really change that, but what could we do but carry on.

We made arrangements to have her cremains sent on to Washington, and stocked up on as many provisions as we could reasonably carry and keep fresh. When the time was right, we left Port Hardy for Bull Harbour on Hope Island.  This is a good staging and waiting point just north of Vancouver Island… before crossing Nahwitti Bar and rounding Cape Scott. This rounding can be dangerous...read more