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There are so many salmon here, I decided today to order a pressure canner and take care of some of it for the folks back home. It will be nice to have this canner for canning garden stuff when I finally settle down too.
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I made it back into Cordova Monday night, after a month of heavy travelling. I’m ready to slow down and work! I spent yesterday working in town on various projects, and this morning loaded the phantom boat at the Million Dollar Bridge and headed upriver to Baird camp.
Here is a view of Child’s […]

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Click the picture below to start a slideshow of my visit into the city today!

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Toby and I were busy this morning cutting, splitting, and stacking nearly a cord of firewood for this coming winter. I’m tentatively planning to move back here over the winter and put a basement on my cabin.

Cabin […]

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Human Remains at the Catholic Cemetary on Malapascua

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At the catholic cemetary on the island, it seems that poor people merely place their loved ones in cardboard boxes and leave them. There are boxes of body parts just like these.

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My Nipa hut on Malapascua Island

Originally uploaded by mainelife.

This was a very nice Nipa hut that I stayed in the past several nights. The 8km ride from Maya, Cebu to Malapascua Island is made by pump boat, which is a kayak-looking vessel with outriggers […]

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Here’s a photo of Jeremy and I cleaning the engine in Contessa. I stole this photo from Laura’s Blog. Working on an engine in the tropics is definately an experience! It was at least 20 degrees hotter in the boat than outside. It was like a Philpino sweat lodge!

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My Driver

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My moto driver around the Chocolate Hills region of Bohol Island, in the town of Carmen. We road for 1.5 hours for a cost of only P180. I was planning to head for a different island yesterday, but when I arrived […]

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Tilling the filed with Buffalo. 8 Sisters in background.

Originally uploaded by mainelife.

A farmer tills his fields in front of the 8 Sisters, part of Chocolate Hills, Carmen, Bohol. He is using a native Buffalo.

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Well, here I am changing course again. No big surprise. Things haven’t been as comfortable aboard the boat as I would like, and so I think traveling solo will work best for me. The group dynamic is hard to deal with, and I think would require a really great, close group. […]

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