• The night before launching. A huge thank you to my friend Joy for helping me pull it all together.
  • Goodbye Portland!
  • Gone fishing!
  • My ‘on Safari in Kenya’ selfie, except I am rowing down the Columbia River. Same same.
  • Heavenly light.
  • The morning light was such a gift.
  • Photo 1 – there is so much beauty in the world.
  • Photo 2
  • Photo 3
  • A tanker up-anchoring gave me a terrible fright. Astoria.
  • Fishing boat pre-dawn.
  • Boats charging at me in the dark.
  • Salmon fishing season on the Columbia River.
  • September 02 at 7AM. Columbia River Bar, best described as rowing a rollercoaster on a conveyor belt.
  • I got spat out of the Columbia River at 8.75 knots!
  • Day 1, sharks!
  • A mere foot away from me!
  • Three of them, cruising around under my boat!
  • Arctic Tern. Scores flying south everyday
  • Moon selfie.
  • Arctic Tern + full moon
  • Selfie.
  • Curious and unafraid.
  • Two seal pups hung out with me all morning.
  • A giant glass lightbulb. Very weird.
  • On sea anchor with dolphin visitors.
  • A sea louse that came up with my sea-anchor
  • Land bird visitor.
  • Pre-sunrise
  • The sunset of gods.
  • Post sunset.
  • Adams-Family selfie taken during the storm.
  • Container ship silhouetted.
  • Some of the roughest weather I have ever encountered.
  • Breaking waves.
  • The joy of closing in on the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • Lighting a flare in celebration of arriving!
  • In a month I ate half of that 20lb rock of Parmesan cheese!
  • 1st woman and 2nd person to “intentionally” row the length of the State of Oregon!