Memorial Day 2013

Sitka did a nice job acknowledging all of the service men that have given their lives for the sake of our freedom. It was a beautiful day. We went to the beach later and bbq'd, I even stuck my feet in the water. BBBRRRR   We saw people at sandy beach actually playing in the water. At first I thought it was a polar plunge!  Nope just people having fun. Hope you all had as nice a day as we did!

Cadets and Coast Guard

Singing our national anthem

Throwing the wreath to bless the fleet

Jennifer, you have a boat here!

A standup Jet Ski in Sitka! Really cool!

Michael loves walking the docks to dream of owning a boat

Our picnik area for the day

wine and peanuts!

Only bear we have seen so far! lol

Beaver!

I love the ocean!

Sunset at home that night

Plant Walk

Michael and I went to a class to discover all of the edible plants we have here. One was memorable because after we came home we discovered we have one of them growing in our yard. Fiddlehead. You cut just the curly top off the plant, blanch it for a few minutes, then Michael sauteed

it in some butter and garlic. Kind of tasted like asparagus/broccoli.

Petersburg May 19, 2013

So Michael and I flew via Harris Air over to Petersburg to check out their Little Norway festival. LOL  It was yesterday. But we still had fun checking out their town. They have a population of around 3000 compared to our 9000. We saw one grocery store but it was pretty big. A new library was mid construction and there was a federal building. We had lunch at a little local eatery on the street. Had halibut tacos that were delicious. There was a fish fry at their sandy beach but it was a Lion's fundraiser and we just couldn't bring ourselves to pay $30 for a piece of salmon and rock fish. LOL Had a beer and wine for $10. Stopped in Kake to drop off another Harris Air pilot that had won a free cruise on Alaska Dream Cruises. Hope Mark and Phyllis have a great time. Where else can you leave home at 10am and go see another island, and be back home at 4pm! Life is good!

Icicle fish packing bunkhouse

Down town Petersburg

AArrr our viking ship

Chicken dance away!

Oh my, a viking on his head!

Captain of my ship

Pot People! Love it!

Museum of Petersburg

HUH?

No ordinary fish allowed in!

Lunch time. Halibut Tacos were yummy!

Bad hair day!

Muskeg out to the ocean

Sandy Beach

B

Beer Garden sort of   lol

Co-Pilot

Leaving Petersburg

Up and over! Headed home

East Coast Baranof Island

Chatham Straight

Co-Co- Pilot   NOT! LOL

Back to Sitka

ZOOM! Wheels down in 30 minutes

Lake Eva Cabin Mother's Day 2013

Michael and I got taken to Lake Eva yesterday via Harris Air in the Beaver float plane. If you have never been in a float plane I highly recommend you add it to your bucket list. This was my first time and will not be my last. We actually came home and booked the cabin again for June 8 & 9th for our anniversary. The cabin was wonderful. Rustic but very comfortable. There is a small boat for guests to use and if you don't bring a motor like we did there are oars so you can row. The motor was nice. :) This cabin is new, it replaced an old one in 2011. It is handicap ready so it has a wonderful deck that also leads to the outhouse. There was a log book in the cabin that you can write your experience's in and it went back to 2007. Was fun to read. We added our adventure to it also. Was told that there doesn't seem to be a bear problem , of everyone that wrote in the log only one person had seen a bear.  We didn't either. Saw some poop and that was enough for me. Yes we took 2 guns with us anyway. lol Michael tried his hand at some fishing but after being unsuccessful we decided the water is still to cold and they were hiding on the bottom. Some beavers came out to play last night and they were fun to mess with. Beautiful birds were aplenty and the view spectacular.
On the way there we also tagged along past our lake to drop a customer off at the Baranof Wilderness Lodge so we got a quick tour of that. Beautiful also and the hot springs are there. Will have to put it on our bucket list. LOL

DeHaviland Beaver Our transportation to Lake Eva

Leaving Sitka

Arriving at Lake Eva

Cabin

See you tomorrow!

We are all alone now!

Instructions says remove plug so it doesn't fill with water

All bailed out, motor on ready to go!

Arriving

Rainier in hand, we are home

Red Solo Cup!

Time to relax see I have a bear whistle! Sounded like a train whistle, lol

Chopping wood

Got off the boat here but were to chicken to go to far. See next photo.

Does a bear shit in the woods? Yes they do!

Huge trees here

Horrible how unhappy I look huh?

Caution, beaver at large

Notice I am not setting my cup down. Michael said don't fall. lol

Hello everyone! What an adventure I am on!

Beautiful reflection

Inside cabin

Walk way to out house

Front porch

I loved the reflection

Hello handsome!

Time to go home! :(