Author: Team Jupiter

Team Jupiter

Cucumbersome

June 24, 2025April 30, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2025

From kayaks, Jupiter’s crew often observes Giant Red Sea Cucumbers (Apostichopus californicus) skulking around rocky shores. We are unexpectedly afforded an opportunity to dive in to this delectable echinoderm, a ... Read more

14-61

June 15, 2025June 15, 2025 Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2025

Are you my Mom? chirped Baby BirdIndeed, replies the motherAnd this is Dad, at least for nowUntil I choose another Dad flew so far and found this boxGod bless his ... Read more

Rapid Distraction

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 Adventures, British Columbia, Summer 2025

The well-established Inside Passage from Seattle, North by Northwest through Southeastern Alaska is familiar to Jupiter and her crew. Yet the immense wilderness of archipelagos and shorelines remains awash in ... Read more

Roadside Traction

May 31, 2025June 1, 2025 Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025

Jupiter’s crew is conversant with the sea, her channels, bays, capes and coves, but bewildered by highways and byways ashore and unmarked on navigational charts. We recognise that roads exist ... Read more

The Three Graces

May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025

Wherever you go, that is where you are. Entering any place a vessel and her crew quickly become part of the scene. Jupiter arrives at an anchorage or settlement, and ... Read more

Tight Transitions

May 20, 2025April 30, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2025

Coastal British Columbia offers a remarkable opportunity for mariners looking for remote passages. A boat, departing any city, town or marina almost immediately finds itself navigating a watery outback in ... Read more

Smarter Next Year

May 11, 2025May 12, 2025 Adventures, British Columbia, Spring 2025, Washington

In a marvel of modern motivational merchandising a doctor and some chimerical cronies publish a book called Younger Next Year: Live long, Fit, Sexy and Smart that advocates changing behavior ... Read more

Viewfinders

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024

The seasonal progression springs into summer aboard Jupiter. Then, when least expected, the impossibly long days of the short Alaskan summer fade into nautical twilight, reminding the crew to plan ... Read more

Bear Essentials

August 22, 2024April 30, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2024

Select all images with bears Whales are Jupiter’s fellow travelers, but bears belong to the shadowy shores, the arboreal lands more imagined than manifested. At every anchorage we wear our ... Read more

Intersection at Port Protection

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 Adventures, Alaska, Summer 2024

On a rare, clear, calm day Jupiter, carrying the past of a man, cautiously enters Wooden Wheel Cove in Port Protection. The crew is on a self-deputed quest to deliver ... Read more