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Our Crew
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"Remembering the crew's camaraderie will keep smiles on our faces as we tell our Alaska stories."
~ Leslie Pletcher, California
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Home Shore tours employ a three-person staff, including captain, mate/guide, and hostess/chef. You will appreciate our dedication, our people skills,
and our love for our "workplace" - the wilderness of Southeast Alaska.
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Jim Kyle, Captain
With an M.A.in Environmental Policy, Jim is an articulate host with a lifetime of maritime experience.
In Southeast Alaska waters he has fished commercially since 1962 and has operated charter tours since 1998. Exploring secret wilderness passages is his passion.
Jim holds a U.S.C.G. 100 Ton Passenger License, is fully insured, and has an unblemished safety record.
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Ben Kyle, Captain, Mate/Guide
Ben grew up fishing commercially with his dad and knows Home Shore as a second home. He has earned his U.S.C.G. 100-Ton Passenger License and is captain for several tours each season.
Professional photographer, outdoor enthusiast, and renaissance man, Ben's good-natured patience as kayak guide and captain is legendary.
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Tara Zuluaga, Hostess/Chef
Tara began cooking with her family as a youth, and is a talented and enthusiastic chef and shipmate. She has a wide variety of restaurant trade experiences, and says, "None can top cooking aboard the Home Shore!"
Tara earned a B.A. in Holistic Health and Applied Ecology and is passionate about healing through herbs and nutrition.
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Benson Isley, Mate/Guide
With a B.A. in Outdoor Recreation, Benson has served as head of his college's outdoor activity program while guiding for its kayaking classes and trips. His artistic skills (dry board masterpieces, foam sculptures) and quick wit (mostly one liners) add a delightful edge to the tours he guides. Benson has a diverse work history and long-term aspirations in the outdoor recreation field.
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Kristin Hoelting, Hostess/Chef
Kristin learned on-the-water cooking skills while commercial fishing. A magna-cum-laude Harvard graduate with a degree in Environmental Science, she has both academic and applied experience in conservation and ethnology, from S. E. Alaska to Cape Horn (pictured). Kristin infuses Home Shore tours with unbridled enthusiasm.
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Kendra Miller, Hostess/Chef
Kendra has had a life-long passion for cooking that began at age ten. A natural and impressive talent in the galley, she sees restaurant ownership as a possibility in her future. Kendra is now attending college, majoring in anthropology and journalism. At right in the picture, Kendra poses with a Home Shore guest from Switzerland.
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Erin Dollar, Original Hostess/Chef
Erin is a multi-talented lass who, with Jim and Ben, guided Alaska on the Home Shore through its formative years. She has commercial fishing experience and a B.A. in the Healing Arts. Now "retired" from the boating business, Erin lives in Sitka, teaches yoga, and is married and an expectant mother. Thanks, Erin - we miss you!
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Alaska on the Home Shore© All Rights Reserved
Except for the main homepage graphic, no image contains objects that have been digitally manipulated.
All photographs were taken during Home Shore tours, with contributions from professionals Gary Luhm, Suzanne Steel, Heath Cowart, & Ben Kyle.
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