I'm back in Bellingham now, and I just got a "new" camera. Over the summer I have destroyed a few cameras, so here's the story on that: At the beginning of the season, just as I was getting the boat ready, I did a few "crew skiff tours" where I took a skiff and drove around a bit to look around the area. On one of them, I had my camera in a bag in the back of the skiff and it fell overboard sometime during the trip and when I noticed it, it must have sunk, because I couldn't find it. So I wanted to have one for the season, so I bought a NEW camera (actually new) from a store in Anchorage, and spent about 2500 bucks on it. I got a Z50 mark 2 and two lenses. They worked great until about the end of august, when I went for a kayak up to the Northwestern Glacier, and got a little too close, and the glacier calved with a big huge avalanche and wave and it swamped my boat and (I was preoccupied) got in the dry bag that I didn't fully close.
So now I have another Nikon, now it is a D750. Its a camera from 2014, but it was made to be a good one back then, so it has more waterproofing than the newer but cheaper models. Anyways, it fits stuff that I still have, and it wasn't too much money. So I took it out for an adventure. My friend Teague has a sailboat in Bellingham, and we went over to Lummi Island for the night.
His boat is a 30 ft aluminum boat and sails pretty nice, but there was no wind so we motored.
Here's a picture of the dodger that I helped him build over the summer. Its plywood and works great to keep the wind off, and the boat dryer.
It was a beautiful day with Mt Baker shining behind us.
We hiked up to a secret lookout spot to look at the sunset, and saw Sucia and Matia...
Here's Cypress and Sinclair...
This lookout has a huge cliff under it, and is quite intimidating.
Here's Lummi Rocks from Above.
The textures were fun, so I took some shots of things in the light to play around with the camera a bit.
And some mosses
From another viewpoint Mt Baker is even more imposing.
We spent the night aboard and explored more the next day
Where we found some turkey tail fungus
And a nicely branched Big Leaf Maple
And some more mosses
And more textured barks
With more turkey tail
Of course I love the madronas too.
On our way back we had great wind and sailed the whole time from lifting the anchor to setting it back again.
Its a fun little boat to sail.
