June 7th
Being on the boat is all about thinking ahead… not very far, just enough. Everything we’ve brought is packed, and to do anything takes preparation. For instance, if we wanted to cook a meal, we would have to take the frozen meat out so it could thaw at least the night before. So we’re already thinking about what we’re going to have for dinner tomorrow night and getting it ready. This is different for me. I’ve always eaten when I was hungry. Lived moments as they came. I try not to plan anything too concrete because I know my plans may change. That’s not the way things work on the boat and I have to adapt to this lifestyle. It’s taking a little time, but I’m getting better at it.
We reached our passage into the Bearing Sea. A shallow rip current only passable at high tide called False Pass. It sucked us through with the tide and shot us out into what felt like the other side of the world. The upper side of the Aleutian chain is very different than the lower side. The volcanic chain along the ring of fire is a result of the Pacific plate being pushed under the North American plate. The ocean on the southern side of the Aleutians is very deep with mountains that guard the coast. The northern side of the Aleutians is shallow and flat. Most of the landscape is marsh and grassland that stretch far out into the ocean. Even the water seems different. I watched the sun set on the Bearing Sea for the first time – as the color in the sky mixed with the bloated ripple of the water, I felt as though I had been holding my breath my entire life to emerge into a Monet painting.
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