The Plan

On Friday, June 29th, my dad left from Horseshoe Bay to head out on a SEADOO to Alaska. He will be calling every 3 days or so, and then I will update where he's at and how it's going. This is the only picture I have of the seadoo and it was taken last August. Since then, he has added a wind sheild and attached many other apparatus' to it such as; gas tanks, storage bins, GPS, an oar, flare guns etc. He is going out on his own and has been planning the adventure for about 6 months now.

For those of you that are worried, he does have a satellite phone (that costs $3.00 a minute, therefore he says he will only talk to me for one minute:)) and a dry suit.

The plan is to try to get to Alaska but his greatest dream has always been to explore the Queen Charlotte Islands. Below is a map, showing the coast of BC and how far he has to go. He has set aside one month to do this trip and he knows that we would be more proud of him for making a wise decision and return if it gets too wild, than to actually reach Alaska. As you can see by the map below, his greatest concern is reaching the Queen Charlotte Islands as they are many miles offshore (oh boy, he told me once how far, but I forget) which makes it difficult due to unpredictable weather. I will now update days 1 and 2 on the next post!