Dear newsgroup:

Please visit my just-completed "Alaska 2003" Web page set. They describe my
recent four-month tour of the Gulf of Alaska in my Nordic Tug 37. There's
lots of wildlife pictures and plenty of useful information about this part
of the world. Please drop by -- thanks!

http://www.arachnoid.com/alaska2003

--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

Beautiful website and trip, but you have a chapter missing and I have
a suggestion for the readability.

The chapter that's missing should be called "Sleeping with
Mosquitoes". I'll leave its prose and colorful comments to the
author's imagination. Only the Alaska Chamber of Commerce doesn't
tell anyone about the bugs...(c; I recently watched a fishing show
taken on a float plane trip. The mosquitoes were so busy eating the
cameraman you could hardly see the fisherman who were being eaten
alive.....(c;

Each webpage needs a duplicate navigation section just like you have
at the top of the webpages, at the bottom of each page, so that when
you've read the chapter and looked at the pictures you bump into the
navigation station, especiallly the button to go on to the next
chapter without having to scroll back up to the top.....easy to fix.

Thanks for the trip! Sorry about your heater. My friend just bought
an Amel Sharpi ketch that lived in San Francisco with a diesel heater
in it. He had it removed and TWO air conditioners installed so we
could all survive the Charleston, SC, summer. That heater was, also,
completely destroyed inside by the diesel fuel.



On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:12:53 -0700, Paul Lutus
wrote:

Dear newsgroup:

Please visit my just-completed "Alaska 2003" Web page set. They describe my
recent four-month tour of the Gulf of Alaska in my Nordic Tug 37. There's
lots of wildlife pictures and plenty of useful information about this part
of the world. Please drop by -- thanks!

http://www.arachnoid.com/alaska2003

--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com



Larry W4CSC

Maybe we could get the power grid fixed if every politician
regulating the power companies wasn't on their payrolls.

About the Alaskan bugs: We just got back from a cruise in our boat from
Port Hardy, B.C. to Sitka and back, and except for some no-see-ums
around the Baird and Patterson glaciers, I bet we didn't see six bugs
the whole trip.

There were no mosquitos at all, a couple flies and no bees or
yellowjackets. We have screens and brought plenty of all kinds of bug
dope and didn't use any of it.

Messing In Boats wrote in message
...
About the Alaskan bugs: We just got back from a cruise in our boat from
Port Hardy, B.C. to Sitka and back, and except for some no-see-ums
around the Baird and Patterson glaciers, I bet we didn't see six bugs
the whole trip.

There were no mosquitos at all, a couple flies and no bees or
yellowjackets. We have screens and brought plenty of all kinds of bug
dope and didn't use any of it.

It has been a very odd year for bugs here in Alaska. Many areas where they
are normally terrible, they have been non-existent. We were in SE (Skagway)
a couple of weeks ago. Go there every year this time. Normally there are a
fair number of mosquito's about. Probabaly only saw 2-3 the entire week.
There were a some no-seeum's, but not nearly as bad as normal.

Scott

We were in SE (Skagway)
Probabaly only saw 2-3 the entire week.


They came back Friday night! Nice day on Lynn Canal but the evening
brought the beastly things out in Skagway.

Rick