Where East Meets West

Position  N52 d 16.73
         W179 d 59.53  Time 02:45 July 5

Well we left Kiska yesterday morning about 10.  We were going to stay one more day and do some more exploring but when we downloaded the weather it showed our window was opening early.  A bigger concern is it looked like it was closing early as well, i.e we were in for some bad weather if we didn't get going.  So we restored the dinghy and motor and packed everything away again and were off.  We left Kiska in a heavy fog sneaking out like the Japanese did 70 some years ago.  Anyway shortly after departing Kiska the fog lifted a bit and the day was rather nice.  We soon had a pod of Orcas escourting us away.  We again tried to get pictures and were mostly getting their splashes so in desperation we recorded some video so others can see.  When we finally get to some internet we have lots of photos to post.  Anyway the Orcas stayed with us for about an hour and then we saw a large whale blowing in the distance.  A great way to start a journey.

So what is up with the title?  It's a phrase that is often used, but in this case it is because we have officially entered the Western Hemisphere.  Now we have to remember to type a W instead of an E after our longitude readings.  This is where the dateline is supposed to be but as we said in an earlier post we have crossed that a long time ago.

We should arrive Adak Monday morning and we will probably stick there for a couple of days waiting for the weather to open up again.  There are actual people who live on Adak.  Though not as populated as it was when the Navy was there apparently there are 60 or so permanent residents and a bunch of contractors.  So hopefully we can get some internet and order an inverter.  Ours died the other day and it kind of cripples us as we need to run a generator to get any ac power to charge anything.  We can not get it shipped to Adak but hopefully will be able to arrange it being sent to Dutch Harbor so it is there when we arrive.