Captain Lulabelle’s Fine Art

Bette Lu Krause

Bette Lu’s adventurous spirit has taken her around the world by sea. As a merchant mariner on research vessels, tramp freighters, large oil tankers, and tugboats, she has explored many of the earth’s coastal regions. In 1991, she joined Lindblad Expeditions, first as a deck officer and a few years later as an expedition leader and naturalist, traveling and teaching in several wonderful destinations. Aboard her own 1934 36’ Monk wooden cruiser, she ‘gunk holed’ and kayaked around many lesser known islands and inlets of Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, Canada’s Gulf Islands and the fiords surrounding the first nation village of Alert Bay, BC. She has attended several special cultural events among the Kwak’wak’a’wak people. These days she lives in a small coastal town in Washington, and spends time in nature and painting in her home art studio. Much of Bette Lu’s art is inspired by the magnificent rainforests and salt water places of the Pacific Northwest.