This summer we plan on attempting the Northwest Passage, this is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Arctic. It will be a tough few months for us but extremely rewarding. Anything worthwhile in life will warrant crazy emotions and maybe some tears. We plan on sailing around the world, the Northwest Passage is our first adventure of many.
We expect the trip up through Nova Scotia to be not too nail biting, maybe a little foggy and cooler weather. We will be cutting through the Bras d’Or Lakes in Nova Scotia, this offers us a bit of a short cut and gets us off the swell of the ocean to the calm waters of the lake. But you never really know what’s going to happen, we hit the lake at the same time last year and found ourselves tucked up in a small cove away from any towns waiting for a hurricane to pass over, who would have thought a hurricane could find us all the way up there. [Read more…]