Previous spread: Serenity Lake in Alaska
From Panama, My Secret made her way 640nm to warm and welcoming Costa Rica, for a four-day rest stop for the crew, berthing at Marina Papagayo near the Nicaraguan border. San Diego, California was the next and last major provisioning stop before heading on to what has been the highlight of the whole tour. “I can’t say enough about Alaska,” says Captain Mayer. “It was my highlight, it was the owner’s highlight, it was unreal.” For three months, My Secret explored this fiercely beautiful part of the world, searching out glaciers, marvelling at wildlife and savouring the blissful isolation of the great white north. “We found ourselves in some bays in Alaska where there was not a single other soul,” he says. “In some areas, the local people still live very traditional lives, trading and paying with fish and surviving on what they can catch and gather. It is refreshing and humbling to see.”
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