Here it is Saturday morning, 6:45, and I have already been up for almost 3 hours. Steve, Kevin, Alex, & Cody went King Salmon fishing this morning and I chauffered them to the river. Made it back in time to send off Ed, Gary, Bradley, Logan, Matt, & Aaron for their halibut adventure. Devan, Griff, and myself have nothing formal planned this morning so I thought I would catch you up on what we have been doing.
Ed, Matt, Bradley and myself made it to Sam's yesterday morning about 9:00 AM and loaded up on food. We spent about $650, that coupled with earlier food purchases still puts us several hundred under budget!!! Meanwhile, back at Lake Jewel Nazarene Church, the rest of our crew were working on service projects. Trimmed trees & bushes, painted a door & a cross, vacuumed, pulled some weeds, lost a pair of Gary's gloves....all in all a succesful project. By the way, this piture is from just outside the door of the church.
We left the church at noon and headed to R.E.I. for some last minute supplies, brown bag lunch in the parking lot, and then picked up the satellite phone. Finally left Anchorage at around 2:00 heading south for Soldotna. I must say it was one of the all time scenic drives. Tide was out, so on one side of the road we had the tidal marsh and on the other we had mountains with occassional waterfalls as the drained into Turnagain Arm. Pictures will follow in a later posts but as everyone that took pictures on the drive is now fishing...Ed did get a nice pic of a Moose with her calf....
We made it to the Gone Fishin Lodge in Soldotna around 6:00 last night. Nice place and nice people. Assignments were made, fishing arrangements made, and a spaghetti feast followed.
My personal moose count is 4 cows, 1 young bull, and 2 calves. So far no bears have been spotted. I am beginning to suspect that there are no bears. That the presumed existence of them is a plot by the bear mace industry to proliferate the marketing of more anti-bear materials...
In my experience these types of trips always end up with certain catch phrases that won't die. So far, this trip's seem to be: "aLASka"...& "it was the wrong sized pretzels"...
Now that we are at the Lodge, posts should come more regularly, but that's all for now.
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