Borzak
Silver Baron of the Realm
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I know things that interest me are of no interst to most people. Sitting here today was thinking about cool things I've seen or been around. One of those days. Either today or tomorrow I'll be checking in a hospital for possibly the last time.
In 1992 I spent the summer in Alaska on the Kenai pennisula with my cousin and my great uncle (her grandfather). She had a brain tumor (turned out to not be cancer) and he spent every other summer there and knew a lot of the locals.
He knew a guy from PA that moved there to work on the north slope and he owned a 25' or so boat. We fished for halibut and other stuff in it. One day we drove down to Homer and put the boat in and went up Kachemak bay to pick up crabs on a minus tide. 30' tide change and when it goes minus the crabs get caught in tide pools they can't leave and can be picked up.
We went in about 30-45 minutes and stopped. My job was to paddle a two person inflatible raft to ferry everyone else to pick up crabs. It was mostly grandkids and younger people. I did that then sat there and enjoyed the day. I kept the raft tied to the boat. When they came back and signaled I would row to them to pick them up. About 30 feet from two Orca whales surfaced and then moved off. As they were moving off one spyhoped out of the water and then they kept moving off.
To me that was well worth the trip. I saw lots of other Orcas. Saw a bunch more when I lived in Anacortes, WA where whale watching is in an industry. But to me that was beyond cool and well worth the trip. Well that and the guy that owned the boat fell in the water getting back onto the boat and he said it wasn't that cold when I offered my jacket. It wasn't that cold but that water was fresh off a glacier.
That's all just wandering today. Pre cell phone days but I'm not a big photographer. Somewhere I have a few pis of whales while we were waiting in the boat.
In 1992 I spent the summer in Alaska on the Kenai pennisula with my cousin and my great uncle (her grandfather). She had a brain tumor (turned out to not be cancer) and he spent every other summer there and knew a lot of the locals.
He knew a guy from PA that moved there to work on the north slope and he owned a 25' or so boat. We fished for halibut and other stuff in it. One day we drove down to Homer and put the boat in and went up Kachemak bay to pick up crabs on a minus tide. 30' tide change and when it goes minus the crabs get caught in tide pools they can't leave and can be picked up.
We went in about 30-45 minutes and stopped. My job was to paddle a two person inflatible raft to ferry everyone else to pick up crabs. It was mostly grandkids and younger people. I did that then sat there and enjoyed the day. I kept the raft tied to the boat. When they came back and signaled I would row to them to pick them up. About 30 feet from two Orca whales surfaced and then moved off. As they were moving off one spyhoped out of the water and then they kept moving off.
To me that was well worth the trip. I saw lots of other Orcas. Saw a bunch more when I lived in Anacortes, WA where whale watching is in an industry. But to me that was beyond cool and well worth the trip. Well that and the guy that owned the boat fell in the water getting back onto the boat and he said it wasn't that cold when I offered my jacket. It wasn't that cold but that water was fresh off a glacier.
That's all just wandering today. Pre cell phone days but I'm not a big photographer. Somewhere I have a few pis of whales while we were waiting in the boat.
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