CONNALLY, Kirk Lewis
CONNALLY, Kirk Lewis (b. 1953), second of four surviving children born to Bill and Lil Connally, founders of Island Packers; 1973 graduate of the California Maritime Academy and Master Mariner.
On July 8, 1989, Kirk Lewis Connally and ISLAPEDIA author, Marla Daily, were married in Talkeetna, Alaska.
- 1989. Connally, Kirk Island Packers Northern Channel Islands Anthology, Santa Cruz Island Foundation Occasional Paper #2, 1989, pp. 42-51.
CAPT. KIRK CONNALLY'S CAREER HAS SPANNED THE GLOBE:
HAWAIIAN TUG & BARGE
- Hawaiian Islands and North Pacific (Stockton, CA; Astoria, OR)
SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY
- Indian Ocean
- North Pacific (Hawaii, Guam)
- South Pacific (Fanning Island, Samoa, New Guinea, Australia, Sumatra, Singapore, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Philippines, Fiji)
BIEHL SHIP MANAGEMENT
- Florida
- Texas
WESTERN GEOPHYSICAL
- Arabian Sea
- Gulf of Guinea, West Africa (Congo, Cameroon, Gabon)
- Java Sea (Sumatra, Java)
- South China Sea (Singapore, Boreno)
SAN JUAN TOWING
- Caribbean (Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Venezuela, Gulf of Mexico, Florida)
BIEHL OFFSHORE
- Alaska
- Gulf of Mexico
- North Atlantic
ALASKA TRAWL FISHERIES
- Bering Sea
AMERICAN SEAFOODS
- Norway
- Bering Sea
SUPREME ALASKA SEAFOODS
- Bering Sea
- Eastern Pacific
- Japan
- West Coast of United States
YUTANA BARGE LINE
- Yukon River
- Kuskokwim River
- Tanana River
SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Panama
- Costa Rica
KEYSTONE SHIPPING
- Texas
- Panama
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
MARIPRO
- Alaska
- Australia (Freemantle; Cape Leuwin)
- Bahamas
- California Channel Islands
- Chile/ Juan Fernandez Islands
- Crozet Islands, French Sub-Antarctic Archipelago
- Florida (Jacksonville)
- Gulf of Mexico
- Hawaiian Islands
- Idaho (Lake Pond Orielle)
- Indian Ocean (Diego Garcia Island)
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Maryland (Baltimore)
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico
- Singapore
- South Atlantic/ Ascension Island
- Southern Ocean
- Sub Antarctica/ Crozet Islands
- Western Australia
- Western Pacific/ Wake Island, Marshall Islands
TERRA MARINE RESEARCH & EDUCATION
- R/V Diamaresa 35,000 miles~
- Ventura, Ca to Southeast Alaska
- Baja Pacific Islands
- Revillagigedo Islands: Socorro & San Benedicto
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Kirk Connally is Member #2 of the All 8+ Club of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation. In addition to the eight California Channel Islands, he has visited the following islands in bold on the Club's expanded list of Alta and Baja California islands:
ALL EIGHT PLUS:
- Rincon Island (man-made Channel Island)
- Farallones
- Año Nuevo
- Islas Coronado
- Islas Todos Santos
- Isla San Martin
- Isla San Geronimo
- Isla Guadalupe
- Islas San Benito
- Isla Cedros
- Isla Natividad
- Isla Asuncion
- KIRK CONNALLY
Kirk Connally
Anacapa Island, May 4, 1985
Marla Daily and Kirk Connally
Aboard Diamaresa, December 31, 1987
Kirk Connally
Santa Cruz Island
Kirk Connally
Santa Cruz Island
Kirk Connally at the Cantina Vieja,
Santa Cruz Island, April 1990
MariPro colleagues and best friends,
Kirk Connally and Robin Gauss at sea off Wake Island, Western Pacific, 2007
Robin Gauss, Mark Connally, Kirk Connally, Earl Rider, Bernie Huerta, Santa Cruz Island, 2014 
Kirk Connally (right) off Jacksonville, FL,
Atlantic Ocean 2015
Crozet Island, French Sub Antarctic Territory,
Southern Indian Ocean, 2016
King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus),
Crozet Island, French Sub Antarctic Territory,
Southern Indian Ocean, 2016
Crozet Island, French Sub Antarctic Territory,
Southern Indian Ocean, 2016
Kirk Connally and Robin Gauss on a barge off
Long Beach, 2016
