Here is a pic of the boat dad took when I was working on monday. Had to move the paint float over to the starboard anchor to sand it down and paint it

So get this!

I found out this week that me and another guy from the boat are being sent down to Alemeda California to the Coast guard cutter Stedfast (which is another 210 foot boat like mine) to go on patrol down by mexico and central America, maybe even south america im not sure. Since we have been broken so long they have to send some of us to get training for when we get underway up here. Im not going to argue, I cant wait to get some warm weather!! The down there I will be driving the ship, standing lookout watches, and trying to get some new qualifications finished up. They do a lot of drug interdiction down there, so maybe I will get to do some interesting stuff! I just though I would add that, not exactly sure when I will be leaving, but I imagine it wont be to long from now. As for things up here, they are going well, just had Dad come up and visit. It was nice to see a familiar face up here, now I can take on another six months. Doing lots of work and having fun in the free time since the weather is shaping up now. Hope everyone is doing well back home! take care!

Tom

Finally.. The top of deer mountain

Finally we made it to the top of deer mountain. Amazing view, now its time to start moving on to bigger mountains, who knows, maybe Everst sometime!

taking some pictures at settlers cove

Hiking a new trail

So we got off early from work one day for everyone to go hiking on this trail. It was a cool trail, about 3 and a half miles long to the end and back, the catch is, its all board walks and stairs, lots and lots of stairs . But at the end was a really cool lake. So here are a couple pictures of Lake Perseverance..

Cabin trip

So I went on this community service trip to do some work on a cabin for the forest services department. It was roughly 50 miles north and took about two hours by small boat to get to. This place was litterally in the middle of nowhere, no power, no water, no cell service. It was pretty awesome, and so here are some pictures of where we were.

Exploring

You would be really surprized what all you can find when you are walking up the mountain.. There is actually a road under about 5 feet of snow.. Some pretty cool views though!!