Just a few pictures

There wasn't an explanation for these pictures so...here they are!

Dad and Jackie

Diving with sharks

I really don't have many details, all I know is that Jackie and my dad went diving with sharks and Jackie got way too close! Jackie is on her way home. Dad is now driving along the Garden route and 200km west of Capetown in a place called Caledon...lucky, lucky guy!

Cape Town

Dad is currently in Capetown. Sorry the map is so small but basically the southern tip of South Africa. Jackie is joining him tomorrow as she is flying from Namibia to Cape town. Dad is loving it there so far. He's wishing he could take a motor bike around and he's loving the coffee. He's also getting used to all the hand shaking:)

Dad in Africa!!!

Not sure if anyone ever checks this but i will be updating it with my dad's different sort of adventure this month; playing tourist in Africa. He will be in South Africa for 2 weeks and then Kenya for one week. I'm 100% jealous that he is going to Kenya as I was there a few years ago. He left at about 3pm today so he's somewhere over the ocean right now. Will keep you posted...

Wrangell and Tracy Arm

These pictures were sent in via email from some fellow boaters.

Thoughts

Dad is fine tuning his thoughts (and he's got a lot of them right now!) and will post in about 2 weeks...

From the Waggoner Magazine article

As I was chatting with Scott Davis, a SeaDoo, laden with baggage, came in. “Cruising the coast on a motorcycle,” Scott Davis suggested. A little later I met the motorcyclist. He was Jack Dekens, age 53, manager of a probation office in Vancouver. He had been out only 16 days and was returning home, having turned around at Skagway, Alaska. The SeaDoo had a 130-horsepower 4-stroke engine, carried 65 liters of gasoline in the main tank and another 50 liters in a second tank strapped to the back. Top speed was 50 mph; cruise in good conditions was 30 mph. Jack slept most nights in B&Bs, hotels and hostels he hustled up along the way. One night he slept under shelter at Bishop Bay Hot Springs. He has been offered sleeping space on boats, but so far hadn’t needed it.....Now we’ve met, much too briefly, Scot, Scott and Jack. All of them are intelligent, interesting and creative people, the kind who could entertain a dinner party far into the evening.