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Tag: Nature In the Women and Cruising blog series “Take Your Passion Cruising” I wrote about my passion: birds. When you’re cruising, you’re immersed in nature, and many of us enjoy watching the birds while underway or at anchor. But as a boater you’re also in a unique position to contribute to citizen science simply …Read more  Marine Conservation is my passion and I have worked on ocean issues for decades learning a great deal along the way. Sally-Christine Rodgers with husband Randy Repass & their son, Kent-Harris. The oceans are in crisis and we who love them need to step up and be vocal in support of sustainable seafood, reducing Co2 emissions, …Read more  Ready to go In 2007, my husband Wayne and I traveled from Bayfield, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior to Punta Gorda, Florida, on our Island Packet 445 sailboat. We chose the long route, which took us through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Canadian Maritime provinces, a trip of about five thousand miles. I had absolutely no intention …Read more  Bizarre whale tales Who can forget the photos of the 40 ton southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) that breached onto a 33ft sloop in South Africa in 2010, breaking the mast before sliding into the water with an ‘eerie …Read more  Most sailors setting off on a passage dream of encountering wildlife at sea. Yet ask blue water sailors about their biggest fears, and near the top of the list is likely to be ‘striking a whale’. It’s one of the events most likely to be catastrophic at sea. Today, we can usually avoid really bad weather, but can we avoid a sleeping whale at …Read more  “What did we sign up for?!” I thought after our first day at anchor in the Sea of Cortez. We had spent the prior night and wee morning hours fighting through a 30 knot coromuel to get to the anchorage. Both us and the boat were covered with …Read more  From watching dolphins leaping at the bow, seeking companionship from a banking shearwater during lonely ocean watchers or flushing hundreds of tiny sparkling plankton down the loo(!), sailors are overwhelmingly in tune with the natural world.  A year ago, I wrote about “Birding Aboard” for Women and Cruising’s series, Take Your Passion Cruising.  I have always said the two things most cruising women agree they miss most are their children/grandchildren and their gardens. I dealt with the gardening issue by bringing aboard window boxes and potted plants. My outside garden, always changing I put a layer of heavy pebbles in the bottom of the boxes, then put in potted plants in their …Read more 
When my husband Mark and I started writing cruising guides, we called them “enriched” guides because we wanted to include more than just the “mileposts and signposts” of transiting from one port to another. When we cruised, we most enjoyed the learning experiences along the way. Although we were busy piloting, we were curious about the stories …Read more  Imagine this…You are one week out on a three week trip and you realize that funky odor is coming from your trash and there is no place to toss the bag and get it off the boat. Okay, I might be a bit obsessive about my trash and I admit it, but I come by it …Read more  If you’re not an animal lover, you may as well skip this particular log entry. Just go ahead and exit the site, or move on to the next post, because what I’m about to talk about will only deeply affect those who have large hearts for God’s creatures. Here’s a story for you Back in …Read more |
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