Pictures

Me and Mommy at Rest stop by Hope

Rest Stop by Hope

Fish Mike caught on Friday!

Bear Creek Winery

The Salmon

Photos: Camping and Car

Jacob ready to Dip net

The Boys fishing in the Kasilof

Jacob playing in the sand

River by the Camp Ground

Pretty Flowers

Camping on the Kasilof

New Car!!!

Kodiak

I have gotten an opportunity at work to travel to Kodiak, Alaska. I will be inspecting a new housing development that is under construction for about 6 weeks. I will be out there from Mid-June to the end of July. Mike is excited to come out for a week and do some Salmon fishing. Since he has every other week off he will come out at least once, maybe twice. He could either fly out there or take a ferry from Homer. This is an amazing opportunity both personally and career wise. Getting out of the office, learning some testing for soils, and exploring the Island of Kodiak. So if you are planning a trip to visit us you will have to come to if you come between June and July.

Salmon Fishing

The Lineup

Holy Birds

1st fish! (Red Salmon)

Mike in the water (he stayed relatively dry!)



Yesterday Mike and I got up at 4:00 AM (crazy I know). And we drove down to the Kenai River to go dip netting, well Mike did. I read and worked on my cross stitch (like and old lady as Mike would say). It was really slow as far as fish go. We got there at 8 and Mike got in the water right away. He got his first fist around 9:15ish and then quickly got two more! we were both really excited until we looked at the net and noticed that all 4 screws that hold the net on to the pole has broken (around 11)! After freaking out for a minute I ran back to the car and drove to Home Depot and got 4 new bolts and nuts. Using our handy dandy leatherman we took the old bolts out and put the new ones in. Mike was back in the water around 12:30. However he did not get another fist until 3 :( We left at about 4:30 with 5 fish. Not a ton but we were please with the ones we got. Mike is working on Filleting them today and we are making some for dinner :)

Filleting in the Kitchen!

Fresh Salmon in Alaska! Anyone who comes to visit us will get a wonderful Salmon Dinner!

The fillets from the three fish we cut up (we gave Samantha and Hans the other 2 for letting us borrow their net!)

Dip Netting

SALMON

HOLY PEOPLE
HOLY COOLERS


A DIP NET

MIKE WITH HIS SALMON

In Alaska only residents can dip net. Since Mike and I have been here one year as of July first, Mike went on Friday. He went with friends from church (Jody and Clark). The went all day and there were a tons a people down there on both sides of the river according to them. He caught 6 Salmon and 2 rock fish (a small version of Halibut). He let the Halibut go. We took the Salmon to a processing factory to get filleted, frozen and packages.

Mikes Fishing Pictures

The Camp Site

Will "the Captain"

Mikes Halibut

Hans Halibut

Mt.Redoubt... still steaming