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Pretty Soon they will head out with out us
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Met some new friends in Ziegler - Steve, Tammy and their 2 girls and new puppy named River.
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Shared their fire to make some hot dogs.
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I love these flowers that grow around the beaches, I would like to start shooting more macro photography.
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Started teaching Caleb how to make fires with the basics, we will keep practicing.
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Went into Main Bay to harvest some sockeye but they were not in yet in any great numbers.
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Main May Residents
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Got a nice haul of shrimp
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Cruising in some building seas with porpoise cruising along side of us.
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Coming into Marsha Bay it was a little rough coming into the narrow entrance with big following seas pushing us along.
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Nice Hike in Marsha Bay, Knight Island
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Lost a hand held VHF radio on the way down and was amazingly able to find it hiking back up - an answer to prayer as I just bought the crazy thing.
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More Porpoise - very fun to watch. This is along the east side of Knight Island
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Caught a bunch of Yelloweye, Rock Fish and Ling Cod that we had to release as it is too early. Also caught some halibut.
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Beatiful Beach
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This beach had a cool tidal lake that I woud like to explore more some time. We named this beach "Tunnel Beach" for the tunnel that took you to another beach section.
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Water was about 51 degrees but not to cold for a little swim.
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Drifting along doing some fishing
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Disc Island or Disc Bay on knight Island - a very cool oval bay with a very narrow entrance.
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Heading out of Disc - the chart plotter shows me driving over land but the water was deep enough.
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"Our Escape" heading out of Disc.
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More Fishing - this was a huge Ling Cod, I wish the season was open.
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Two Pirates for sure.
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Time to fillet the catch
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Sundog at rest
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Be sure and look at the large version of this, the fire makes the area around the kids heads look like a watercolor
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Playing around with a still life structure, I just love the mountains in the background.
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Here is the entrance again to Disc.
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Official Sundog "Abby"
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Joshua starting a fire with the magnesium starter
- He also chopped a little peice off his thumb with the hatchet - I think maybe we better wait on the hatchet for him for a while:)
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Full Boat
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Caleb reels up a nice little halibut
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Halibut enchiladas and then time for a little rest
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On the way in we stopped near Perry Island to take some shots of the Sea Lions.
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