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Showing posts with label Anniversary Fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anniversary Fish. Show all posts

Friday, July 2, 2010

Anniversary and a Thirty One Lb. Salmon

Today, one year ago, I was in the air on the way to Alaska.  I've been thinking about that trip all day long.  I will never forget the wonderful time it was. 
The Alaskan Airline plane landed in Anchorage at about 11:30 p.m. and the sun was still shining on the beautiful water of Cook Inlet and Turnagin Arm.  By the time my time was over Gregg (my son in law) had flown me along Tustemena Lake and the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, around Halibut cove and then on over to Homer and Homer Spit. We had rafted on the Kenai River and we ate at the top of the mountain at Girdwood and a gorgeous place called Seven Glaciers Restaurant.  And that's just for starters.  Between Bean and Gregg  I got a pretty good feeling for the place where they live and it was so, so hard to leave the Land of the Midnight Sun.

Amanda  caught this fish - the first one she ever caught.  It's a 31 lb. King or Chinook Salmon.
She's never killed anything in her life and has been a vegetarian for a long time.
I think her face says it all.
To read more about this read stinkpot studio listed under my Kindred Spirits or 180pz.  
 Diane