Happy Plants

To come home to... smilin in bloom















Especially if you can eat em..... 

Scenes ....

 

Octopus & Pirates

Finest dining ... bait.
A little coconut sauce deeply saute'd over a simmering oil stove and it's a cross between Abalone and Shrimp... YUM ! - That is the "beak" of the octopus.. they may bite in defense....
The crew chops "Humpies" for our bait... he say's "yum" in disgust.... (they're stinky)

Might also add we caught a halibut that weighed 199 with head/guts removed... thus might have been 260/270 as landed...(or more) we didn't think it was that large so skipped the photo in the slime of the moment... guess Tyler coulda laid next to it for a measurment...

A little touch of.....

Class & Sass..
okay.. som'thin strange ?
While riding the deck into Sitka (strongest magnetic pull) -
A very large dark (black?) PARROT with an extreme forked tail flew overhead . . (this IS Alaska)..... ?
- followed unfortunately quite a ways behind by a Bald Eagle... the eagle was slightly less in size of the parrot.. !
too late for the camera even tho it was near... (didn't expect a friggin parrot !! thought it might be an eagle carrying a salmon)
The excellent eyesight of the crew reported a raptor style rear pounce as they dis-appeared below our horizon.... hmmmm...

Otherwise the show an hour earlier was enthralled young sealions "surfing" over the breaking Cameron Pass Rock...
(we "quit" due to big waves this day)
ev'ry day is something different....

This young bruin is currently occupied in the estuary ...

Thanks to "Solketcher" for braving to get near for these photos, take your binoculars if you want to see him "up close" as these guys are hungry this year with too few berries on the bush.... might wanna leave the pooch in the car too....

A tale heard in our famous pub yesterday included a guy and a skiff at the beach with a baited crab pot getting stolen by a bear while his back was turned... but the guy managed to grab the buoy line and "tug-of-war" with the thief until it was relenquished and the vanquished bear scampered back into the forest....
Apparently someone has this on video...

Hops tree;


 

Golf Stance

 

Potluck

Nowhere else I've ever been that embodies the spirit of community as an Southeast Alaska "Potluck" ...we gather for feast and festivities... usually music late into the night follows.. These events can be impromptu any day, the above potluck is an organised "Troll Open/Closure" Golf Tournament after-effect...

P.A. 

a Bike Hangin'

Luckily a bike and not a boat as the dock drops away with the ebbing tide..... (careful whatcha tie to).....