Venture Re-Discovers Southeast Alaska. Episode 9

We make a brief excursion north from Sitka to the remote west coast of Chichagof Island and visit an abandoned and overgrown gold mine.

[@phillpearson7531]

In these strange and tumultuous times, your videos bring a comfort that can’t be described, only felt. Thank you

[@PS-vk1db]

Your videos are all visually stunning, mood altering. Narration doesn't get better than this is. I needed a warm blanket and coffee for this one! Thanks again!

[@donsmith58]

Thank goodness there are still some explorers around. Thank you for the great photography and adventures.

[@helend222]

Fabulous. You are visiting places trillions of people could never see. Thank you. Much appreciated.

[@cush3230]

Yes you've made another great video Tony and crew, I do hope you continue to create more of them this year and as long as you can. Thank you so much. MC.

[@tomquinn5437]

Tony Fleming is an amazing documentary film maker and narrator. Thanks for who you are and what you do.

[@tomi0618]

Thank you for your brilliant videos. Wow, Alaska is so beautiful. Your videos bring comfort to me especially during these trying times of my life. Wish you good health and more safe and amazing travels.

[@alasdairmackenzie905]

The master of documentary film making does it again. Thank you Tony.

[@cds957]

Tony, your ability to narrate is very good, your voice is very calming and relaxing, I love to watch these journeys.

[@thelastsquidbilly7419]

I really appreciated your message at the beginning of the video

[@evabalga6133]

Teary eyed, with rapid heart beat, open mouthed, infinitely yearning, as I follow your every journey to my beloved Southeast. Thank you for sharing the beauty.

[@stephenhenion8304]

So very enjoyable, Tony. Thank you for sharing your adventures.

[@MrRonnmaui]

Beautiful journey! Love the music and all the gorgeous film and photo work.

[@LynBailey7]

Thank you so much for sharing the beauty of this vast, magnificent wilderness with us. 💖💖

[@makepa64]

Beautiful video content, editing and production. As always. Thank you, Tony.

[@gezimcakerri6886]

Yet another stunning video from Mr. Fleming. As always very enjoyable. Thanks very much. Looking forward to the next one.

[@rickmathews1154]

hi everyone, thank you to Tony and the team, another brilliant production and adventure, thank you

[@johnbettano6026]

Thank you Tony for the wonderful adventure. that I will never get to see in real life.

[@MetaView7]

I am glad you keep making videos. Your drone shots made the video even more amazing.

[@aqueousmoments]

I love your videos, thank you very much.

[@latetotheparty184]

Nice to include an explanation of the sea foam that one sees on water and shorelines time to time. A natural phenomena caused by dead phytoplankton in nutrient rich stormy water, is so much nicer than assuming it is pollution as most people do. It just looks like dirty soap suds. 12:44

[@nigelbarton7433]

Another soothing narration from Tony that together with the well matched music makes a wonderful 15 minutes of escape into the wonderful natural world of the Pacific North West. Thank you so much Tony and of course Venture's crew 👍👍

[@jooeehndeeccru4985]

Always Always look forward for your uploads Mr Tony Fleming

[@leethompson6940]

I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the high level of professionalism and effort that went into making them. Thank you

[@JacobHalfman]

I get so excited to watch the videos everytime I see you've uploaded. Thank you for the wonderful view into the places you go.

[@Ricardo-SW]

Again, superb! Thank you for taking us along

[@PatrickThreewit]

Thanks for showing the chart of Portlock Harbor. I only have a Tongass National Forest map of Southeast and I can remember a very interesting place. In a 44-foot wood boat we were in Klag Bay, in the 60's. We waited for the right tide and then went into Lake Anna and then was able to go into Sister Lake, one of the most interesting places I had ever seen, going from a saltwater bay into a mostly fresh water lake into a very fresh water lake.

[@christopherpeterson1400]

Hello from Seattle, thank you for your excellent videos and experiences

[@shirleyboy8859]

Always a Delight Tony....... Best wishes to You and your Family..... :-))

[@HoggerCaptain]

Stunning, Mr. Fleming. Absolutely breathtaking.

[@mikatahtinen5094]

Uuhh, I love these videos👍 This manˋs voice is hypnotheising….and relaxing..

[@jenniferlevine5406]

Beautiful video. I love coming along on your adventures! Thank you.

[@robertocalderon1856]

So very enjoyable, Tony. Thank you for sharing

[@PatrickThreewit]

This part of Chichagof really brings back memories. I still have a 4-foot by 1 foot galvanized metal sign with those letters on it. There were buildings there when I saw it. I was a geology major in college at the time. There was Chichagof and Hirst Chichagof--the two mines. I collected quite a few big and small specimens and stowed them in my bunk for the rest of the season. I still have some of the mining equipment. My dad was on our boat also and he had been a gold miner in California during the Depression earning a dollar a day. Upon entering the assay office, I could see the many specks of gold embedded in the walls, but that was when gold was only $34 an ounce and not worth people trying to take it out . I also have some of the $30 million entries in booklets. But in those days it was dangerous for pontoon planes to land and only a few venturesome fisherman dared navigate those treacherous rocks. Like Venture, we anchored in the harbor and then took our purse seine skiff to shore to see places this rock and mineral collector saw. Thanks. I wrote to you several times a few years ago and you wrote back, but at that time you hadn't visited this place or at least I dicn't see the video.

[@josephschmoe3796]

Thank you Mr. Fleming.

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

Its good to have found you again! You make some of the most beautiful videos on the web. God Bless, Tony, from Texas!!

[@bradolsen8629]

Thank you Tony for another spectacular video. I sometimes it works though they were longer and lose. That will give me an excuse to bring up the popcorn, but I appreciate it all the same.

[@Furia40]

I really like this videos !! Thanks a lot Mr Fleming

[@cds957]

Good thing about wading thru the forest there, you don't have to worry about Snakes, I do not like snakes!! Very nice folks.

[@PatrickThreewit]

No snakes because all of Southeast is a rain forest, but there are many brown bear and the brush is so think it would be hard to see them before they get you.

[@flaeuro]

Beautiful ❤that’s what I need to see after 10 h at work ( medical field ) thank you 🙏 ❤

[@worry_why]

Thank you for another great video, saúde!

[@oliviermace1523]

Comme toujours splendide, merci

[@nato2959]

Oh! The eternal voice...

[@cjyoung7372]

Very slick Tony and team keep them coming 👌

[@СергейОлесик-й2к]

Love.. Thanks!

[@Mgtowfreedom]

Nice little film ❤

[@AreRisnes]

0:58 #The #Captain Listen carefully and discover at this point, epic soundscape no one else owns. This is great, very enlivening soundstage. The Captain has a good voice and is about to gain a following worthy of a Captain.

[@AreRisnes]

Unfortunately, there is also a lot of poor sound quality, because the piano plays far too loudly against the important natural sounds. This must be corrected before we can fully recommend these recordings. They are destroyed, for now - until the sound image is corrected (that the piano is muffled considerably).

[@AreRisnes]

12:14 #The #Fisherman #Quay

[@poisedonis]

The northwest has many adventures

[@paulrise5284]

Superb.

[@stevehelliwell9101]

Please please, never stop making films.

[@gregsage1605]

Lovely Tony. Thank you!

[@Sushi2735]

If I wasn’t 70 I’d volunteer to be your cook or crew, just to hear all the stories of your life and lustrous career. It must be fascinating!

[@tommysheehan8707]

70??? not a worry. I cruise the inlandwaterways of Ireland,, if fortune should have it that I cross the path of Venture,, I will capture the person that manages the deck,,, make them a galley slave,,,, I want my craft in such pristine condition,,,,,love the escape of others adventure,,, cheers Tommy

[@MySORRELL]

THANKS!

[@africanleopard1920]

Your sailing videos are amazing and inspiring. It give me emotional comfort and relief from stress and strain we have every day life. Thank you. I want to sail on a wonderful voyage like you did. By the way - your recent videos have too much red color. It does not look natural. Please reduce "Hue" & "Saturation" feature in your video editor software when editing video. Anyway - we love your sailing videos. Thank you. We feel good when watching your beautiful sailing journey videos.

[@ML-lg4ky]

I can only imagine the giant glaciers that cut those beautiful valleys.

[@TheBigWWI]

Just lovely.

[@relaxingvideosnorthwest3646]

Beautiful!

[@PatrickThreewit]

Sorry I'm adding so much, but I just found a small cardboard box with the return address of Hirst Chichagof Mining Co., Kimshan Cove, Alaska to be sent to the United States Assay Office, Seattle. In the box was a Shipper's Export Declaration. A couple listings-----Sealed, i box of Gold Bullion containing the following: 1000 Fine Oz gold @$20.67 per oz. and 1000 Fine Oz. silver @58 cents per Oz. Some samples were listed as late as June of 1941. I also have what looks like a seismograph roll, a Mineralogist Pocket Reference and a 1919 136-page booklet of the geology and mineral resources of the West Side of Chichagof Island. Haven't though about any of this for many years. Thanks for your video. I will look at more of my accumulated specimens such as quartz crystals. Gold is often found around quartz outcroppings. I was there fewer than 40 years after most of the mining stopped. A lot different from now. But now I live in Idaho and people here are definitely not interested in such adventure stories.

[@1972mdc]

Truly beautiful - I can operate a 21’ speedboat if you ever need an extra crew member… :) I learn fast and your adventures look amazing

[@mickemike2148]

I gave the BBC a heads up on your beautiful content a few years back, thinking that your material is air worthy as is, for them just to buy and then transmit.

[@dorflonnigan4413]

Thank you

[@dennismacdonald2003]

❤ your videos tyvm

[@dave9351]

Brilliant take on an area few have explored, much less seen (Drone footage excellent) Captain cook and other intrepid explorers would have gone batty at the navigational aids and luxuries we have today ?

[@PatrickThreewit]

Great having those drones. When I was in that region in my 20's, we had no radar and no drones. We went through those crashing waves on those rocks that could only sometimes be seen. But our captain, an experience troller had made his living catching slivers and kings in those areas, and knew where to go. A bit scary for me but I trusted his judgement.

[@davebailey2584]

As usual your photography, and drone footage is as spectacular as ever...A Nonsuch sailor, approximately your age (LOL) I love to doodle with a pencil and have to admit I freeze frames of your work for pencil sketches..(they aren't really that good) .I don't know if I need your permission since I don't sell any of my watercolours or sketches and always give credit to the scenes' originators...Always loved Fleming yachts and have followed all of you travels through the years...I could buy a 55 but after that I wouldn't have enough money to empty the holding tanks never mind fill the fuel tanks...Chuckle chuckle..

[@FlemingYachts]

You certainly don't need my permission. I am flattered that you consider the images worth the effort.

[@PatrickThreewit]

Note, you landlubbers, that he says "Drop the hook", meaning drop the anchor. That was a common saying even in the 60's. But I never saw that foam stuff but I don't remember us going south from Sitka around the southern tip of Baranof. Is. Instead I think we went north and the through Peril Strait to Warm Springs Bay and around Pt. Gardner. But being I was so interested in geography I would have noticed the dead trees. Didn't see any. No obvious climate change in those days, I guess.

[@PACstove]

Have you seen the wild man yet? Have you heard it call from the dark forests?

[@FlemingYachts]

Negative to both!

[@buildingourdaydream9804]

Another great one Mr Fleming! However, only 360p resolution? Or is that just me? I tried to increase it on my end…

[@kfeltenberger]

Where on the island was the abandoned gold mine settlement? I've been trying to find the general area on Google Maps but haven't been successful. Thanks!

[@FlemingYachts]

It is called Chichagof and is on Chichagof Island. You can find it on the map at time code 1.28 on the video where it is described a "Aband" and you can also see it named if you look carefully on the map at time code 9.59 in the video. I don't think you will find it on Google maps.

[@kfeltenberger]

@@FlemingYachts Thanks! Much appreciated!

[@nhlpat1]

What charts do you use?

[@sim-sam]

4:58: spot the deer!

[@LandonBain]

what are your fuel costs?

[@rapturebound197]

Their yacht holds 1,700 gals of diesel fuel going to two (2) 800hp German made engines. Marine fuel in Alaska is at minimum double what it is in the lower 48. 1,700 X $10 @ gal = $17,000 to top off those tanks.

[@FlemingYachts]

@@rapturebound197 The fuel costs are horrible but not as horrible as the previous reply. We actually paid less than US$6 per US gal.

[@rapturebound197]

@@FlemingYachts ✅

[@johnunvaxxed1918]

eventually starts at 0:42

[@patrickreid2767]

Beautiful!

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Thank you

[@rickpriest1961]

thank you