Vank Island

Our trip to Vank Island was a long time ago, but we wanted to post these photos because it was fun and could be fun in the future for us all too. We spent a couple of days out on Vanks Island as chaperons for the annual 8th grade field trip. Every year the 8th graders who do well in school get to go on an end of year trip where they have a few simple classes on sea shore survival. We were asked to accompany the youth and help teach some classes on shelter building. It was a fun experience for the both of us, but the real reason we wanted to post these pics because we think it's gorgeous and would like to do a family getaway on the island in the near future. There is plenty of lodging and space for everyone and we wanted to throw it out there now so that all could think about it and plan for it.

During the day...wonderful

At night...the sunset

Sarah hiding in the bushes...master stalker

Out and about playing with the 8th graders...

No mercy of course...

A beautiful shot taken by Sarah of the gorgeous scenery and a few geese!

Random Fun

Aside from the exciting river trip and also the majestic wildlife we find ourselves doing an array of activities!

Working oh so very hard!!!

Doing all the dirty work!

The results of the home-run derby were positive for both Sarah and myself;
after all we dominated all the other poor participants!

River Trip

A couple weeks ago Gregg and I got to up the river. One of the local guides apparently really likes Gregg a lot because this is the second year in a row that he has taken us up the river for FREE! Usually a trip up the river is around $250 per person so I was pretty dang excited when he invited us a second time. Jim and Ivan are the best!!

Pondering the beautiful moment!

Chunks of Ice filling Shakes Lake

Caught him by surprise!

Eagle feasting on a salmon

So happy to be on the river with his beautiful wife!

Blurry, but an amazing action shot showing motion and the fierceness of the attack.

Gorgeous!

Fireweed Wildflowers

Majestic Falls flowing into the Stikine

Even more majestic is the beautiful Sarah in

Ivan Simonek identifying and discussing the usefulness
of many of the plants found on the Stikine River.

Posing with the ice chunks

Alaskan Summer

The thing that I probably love the most about being in Alaska is that it is so gorgeous here. We live right across the street from the ocean. This presents us with a constant beautiful view. It also gives us plenty of opportunities for beach combing and eagle baiting.

An "an-an-an-anemone"

Barnacles as big as my finger.

Dungeness crab

Gregg putting out salmon guts and bones for the eagles.

Great blue heron, we like to stalk these.

Chocolate Lily (one of Sarah's Favorites)

Eagle flying into the sunset

Posing on the beach

First Timer

So this is somewhat unusual for me. I've never been a big follower of blogs. However this summer has presented me with lots of leisure time, more than I would've hoped for. Gregg is gone for days at a time with his work and I only work part-time. I tend to get bored a lot so I decided to try blogging. Who knows whether or not I'll actually continue to keep this up but I'll give it a whirl.