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Al Murray & Linda (surname?)'s tipi and 16’ canvas tent with wood floor and walls, on the east side of the log jam
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Al Murray’s cement power boat in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay
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Al Murray’s cement power boat under a plastic structure in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay.
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Emily Appleyard on the Whaletown dock; Mark Appleyard with back turned; Mark & Wendy Knudsen’s boat Cytherea on left
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Family in a canoe in front of Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel's floathouse in Carrington Bay
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1978-1985
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Family of treeplanters from Oregon (Frank & Fawn with their 2 kids) lived across the log jam in a tipi where Al & Linda had lived
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Gail Johnson (on foredeck), Pat Brown with her daughter Fawn, Gail’s son Ryan, Jan Gemmel at the helm
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Jan Gemmel at the helm of their speedboat
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1978-1985
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"Jan making a run to Whaletown. Read Island on left, Von Donop behind her head several miles away. Floater coats with beaver tails worn hanging down were de rigeur!"
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Jan Gemmel in their occasionally sub-tidal garden on Carrington Lagoon, Green Mountain behind
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Jan Gemmel in the speed boat beside her float house in Carrington Bay, winter
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Jan Gemmel standing in speed boat in front of their float house; Alan Bent and Gail Johnson's house in background across the bay
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Jan Gemmel standing in their first welding shop in Carrington Bay
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Jan Gemmel welding a stove, Carrington Bay
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Jean Fontaine (L) & Jim Palmer visiting Al Murray & Linda on their float house in Steamboat Pass (Surge Narrows).
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1978-1985
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"Wringer washer powered by a Homelite chainsaw; ear protection was a must while doing laundry!"
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Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel's float house at Carrington in winter; Jan standing in speed boat
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Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house in the winter
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Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house in winter
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Jim Palmer (or maybe Frank Mathers?) in kitchen of the float house in Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer’s old dory on the beach at Carrington Bay
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Lagoon in foreground, looking over log jam to Carrington Bay; Al Murray’s cement power boat under a classy plastic structure.
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Linda (surname?), visiting Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s floathouse, from across the log jam