Back to Sea

I'm back to the Bering Sea in couple hours. I arrived back in Dutch Harbor on Sunday after a couple week stint in Washington. I had a great time in Seattle hanging with other observers, spending time with my aunt and uncle, and meeting up with old friends living there. Early last week I was able to able to make a quick visit home to Pasco to spend time with Mom and Dad. All in all, I feel quite refreshed and blessed to have had connection with friends and family mixed with a lot of land activity including a M's game, browsing Pike Street Market, visiting Mars Hill, and seeing a Huskies game. As for my next boat, it is a flatfish factory trawler much like my first boat I was with in the spring. Its around 125 ft in length and is also known as part of the head and gut fleet referring to the degree of processing. I'll be paired with another observer and will have a 12 hour shift sampling in the factory. It looks as though it may be a while until I'm back to land as they likely will take longer trips and offload offshore to a tramper vessel.