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| Beautiful Blue Iceberg |
My sister Nickie’s birthday. At 9:30am we all boarded a Breakaway jet boat for our tour to the LeConte Glacier $175.00 each. Absolutely spectacular! Every size and colour bergy bit (floating ice bergs). Surrounded by them, but we couldn’t get very close to the glacier as the channel was completely blocked. What an experience.
Yesterday I emailed our boat’s previous owner’s son here in Petersburg. His Mom Irene (Lloyd & Irene Roundtree owned her when she was called “Copesetic “for sixteen year until 1996) came down for a visit. She’s only ten years older than me and is a delight. We had a lovely visit. They bought Copesetic through a broker in Seattle. She was on the east coast of USA and belonged to a church group. They had her shipped by truck on all the back roads from Florida to Seattle and brought her hereto Petersburg where they both were raised. They kept her in a boathouse in front of their house. They had started Alaska Island Air where Lloyd’s favorite plane was a Grumman Goose. He wanted a boat to relax on. Lloyd was diligent in upkeep and care of his planes and “Copesetic”. Every summer was spent on her fishing and in the fall duck hunting all over Alaska and had been to many of the places we have been to. When Lloyd passed Irene kept her for awhile and sold her to the people who owned her in Tacoma. Irene had heard that she had burnt and was pleased to see the GB magazine showing that “Copesetic” (now “Oceanaire”) had been saved by us. Our similarities in life were unbelievable. Irene comes from a family of five girls, me four and she has two girls and a son, same as us. Stacey (her daughter) came down to visit later. She was feeling very sentimental, and reminded us our daughter Tracey.
What a wonderful day, and we topped it off with our boating friends and Chinese dinner from a local restaurant.
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