Ayakulik River Lodge...continued!
Vic watching Tom and Dennis fillet our fish.
My first sockeye!
The kids made a little fishing pole and hooked salmon eggs to it and little tiny fish would swarm the hook. The girls really had fun with this.
Vance's monster Silver! It took him awhile to reel that one in!
Here they come again. This time we sat back and just watched them pass by us. They really cared less that we were there.
If you click this picture bigger you can see the bear on the right peaking his head around the side of Lane. This is hilarious to me for whatever reason.
The kids just sitting on the bank of the river watching the bears.
The bears came back over by the lodge that same evening.
These sweet girls were not afraid of the bears at all!
Michele and I looking au natural.
The beach, we didn't get to spend much time on it because it required crossing a river to get to it. But this is where the plane landed and took off. There was pumice stone laying all over the beach. I put a bunch in my pockets and gave it out at my MOPs group spa day to be used as a foot scrubber!
Goodbye Ayakulik River Lodge!! This was a once in a lifetime experience! I couldn't really put the experience into words. It was a beautiful place with so much wild life, deer, eagles, bear, seals, etc. The company was great, Vic, Vance and Michele and family and the staff, Tom, Amy, Wes and Dennis were all great fun to hang out with! The day we took off to come home it was really, really windy. The plane had to land in a little village called Ahkiok so we could switch planes and he could go back for the rest of our group. It was so windy that it took three tries to land. Every time we would almost land, a gust of wind would pick the plane up and we'd have to go back up and approach again. Lane and I were throwing up in the back of the plane, it was crazy! That was quite an Alaskan experience!
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Ok, so many comments to make so BEAR with me (see what I did there? bad joke)...
The first photo in this post I was like "Wow Estelle is really looking like Hazel and that boy with them looks like Merit" and I totally assumed Michele was you. I've gotten slower since you've been in AK, btw. Second, the pictures and experience looks insane and sooooo cool, the shot of the river running into the ocean is UNREAL. So glad you got to do this! And the bear peaking its head behind Lane totally made me bust a gut laughing, I ran some commentary in my mind about what they bear might be thinking at that moment and laughed too hard. Lastly, the throwing up by you and Lane at the end had me laughing because that totally would have been me and Charlie ahahahah probably Lucy too. Send some salmon our way, yum!
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