One evening we finished at a reasonable time so we went for a boat ride eastof our job site to the mouth of the Aichalik R to try some fishing. Everyone caught a nice Grayling except me. We were amazed to see such impressive lightning and thunder storms.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
ANWR Pt 3
ANWR Part 2
Kogotpak and Nuvagapak Part 1
Attached are some pics from the trip, and a google earth link identifying where we were.
1st Cabin Trip with Ben at 9 months old
For the second week of July Deb, Ben and myself did a long wkd cabin trip to Beyers Lake, about 3 hrs north of Anchorage for two nights. We used my raft as our ferry to haul all our gear across the lake to our rented state parks cabin. This was Bens first time in a cabin. Fortunately we had pretty good weather but not clear enough to see the peak of Denali from our cabin. We did see a black bear from our cabin window. We did a day hike around the lake pushing/carying Ben in his chariot where he was free of the bugs and could nap when he felt like it. The first night he didnt sleep, thus we didnt either. By 0400 he was able to sleep so we all slept late into the morning. The second day Ben seemed more comfortable in his new surroundings. New things to explore and try to put into his mouth. The 2nd night I lit a fire in the wood stove and Ben was mezmorized into a calm sleep. I think he was also warmer with the fire going. I sweated all night on top of my sleeping bag. After a rough start we had a great trip!
June 9 Halibut Fishing in Valdez Alaska
On June 8 Three of my co-workers and I left work and drove toward Valdez stopping at the Klutina R for some Sockeye (Red salmon) fishing. Fortunately for us the reds were in so we were able to catch our limits of reds (3 fish) before continuing on to Valdez where we slept for about 5 hrs before meeting up with our skipper. We took a 3 hr boat ride out by Hitchinbrook Island to fish for halibut. Along the way we saw numerous rafts of sea otters, pods of Orca whales and floating debris possibly from Japans Tsunami over a yr ago. The fishing was great, we all caught halibut that was typically larger than anything I have ever caught from Homer, AK, We each caught our limit of 2 and came home with over 40 lbs of halibut fillets. We drove back to Anchorage late Sat PM with our double haul of fish.
July 4th hike to Rabbit Lake and day hike Rainbow/Potter rd trail w Ben
A couple days later we took Ben with us for a walk along the Rainbow Trail which parallels the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm. Ben loves being outside…..so far!
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