'Alaska' Category
Blue-sky Day
Clear blue sky today. Blankets and sleeping bags blowing in the breeze, dry for the first time in a while. This will be short, as I plan to go out and enjoy it for a bit before dinner.
This is one of the boats that brings us and our supplies here, the Weather or Knot. It […]The Upper Lagoon
Mike and I went canoeing in the upper lagoon last night. We didn’t leave until about 9 p.m. or so because 1-I had to clean up dinner, and 2-we were waiting for high tide. The passage connecting the upper lagoon to the lower lagoon where the lodge will be and where we’ve been canoeing is […]
Ice
So how does the camp cook keep food cold without electricity, a fridge, or a freezer? She keeps three coolers stocked with ice.
So where does the camp cook get ice out in Bush Alaska? She picks it up off the beach, of course!See?
There are bits of icebergs washed up on shore after high tide and […]Camp Cook
This is my world while I am here.
I am serving as camp cook while the crew awaits the arrival of the real cook. This is a wilderness lodge. There are no buildings here as yet, so the crew is camping. This is the cook tent. Notice the blue chest on the right and the brown […]
Seal Speak
I overheard a couple of harbor seals yesterday. Do you know what harbor seals sound like?
Sea lions sort of roar and bark. So did the elephant seals we saw in California in January. These two harbor seals gargled. Seriously, go get a glass of water and kind of hum with your mouth open while […]Out and About
Canoed in the lagoon tonight. Watched a black bear eating grass along the rocky shore. Watched a sea otter and harbor seal watching us. And discovered that the red salmon are running up the lagoon to a creek that will take them to a freshwater lake to spawn.
Forgot to even take the camera. Oops.A Humpback Tale
I’m having trouble with images, but I thought I’d share this:
We had an amazing humpback whale sighting on the two-hour boat ride out. The whale was skimming the surface of the water with its head out, presumably filtering krill from the water. Its mouth was open and we could see the baleen through binoculars. The […]Adventure Time!
Things might get quiet around here for a time. Or not. We’ll see. I am here:
This is Aialik (say “eye-AL-ick”) Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park. Alaska Wildland Adventures is building a new lodge, the Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge, and I am going out to cook for the crew, move rocks, haul water, etc. for […]
A FiberArt Fence?
Well, no. Not really. Not at all. However, one or more of the newborns has been squeaking under the fence twine and tramping through both the strawberry bed and the main garden beds. It doesn’t eat anything, it just squishes its hooves in the soft dirt.
Today I put up more string, especially down low. I’m […]Bird Song
‘Tis the season for birds to sing, right? Would it surprise you to learn that one of the bird songs I hear here in inland Alaska is that of gulls? We’re only about 50-60 miles from the ocean, so maybe that’s not unusual, but there are gulls in Denali as well. I wasn’t aware of […]
