Here we're loading the community barge with lumber to ferry it across the bay to our property.
We lived on the sailboat while the house was being built.
You can see the bow sprint of the sail boat Arctic Tern in the lower left corner.
I'm running the boom and the other two men are carpenters.
The gentleman here is Harold Cleveland. He came to Alaska as a young man and started logging camps that have since become small communities on Prince of Wales Island.
Everything had to be loaded on the barge and then unloaded and carried up the hill side to the building site.
We decided to wait till high tide to offload the plywood
Tristan and Josh ready to go over to the property from the sailboat.
They played on the beach while Pam and I packed building material up the hill side.
The house is finally in the dry. Everything was packed up on our backs from the beach to what you see here. The 'trail' got muddy after a few trips.
The packing didn't stop here. For the next few years, everything had to be packed from the beach.
Josh had to be carried up and down the hill till he was old enough to climb by his self.
