Grizzly Bear

Dipnetting

Dip netting is held during the weeks of July. It is where you dip net fish out of the ocean by taking large round nets (about 4 feet around) that are held by 12 foot long poles. You walk out into the current and hold out your net to catch the salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Here is dad in navy blue, Scott in green and Erin in light blue, waiting for the fish to get caught in their nets...

Here is Scott

Erin carrying her catch and the bucket of salmon up to the ice chests

dads beauty

Scotts prize

On the way home we were lucky enough to spot this grizzly brown bear right off the highway... lumbering along

He sat right down for a bit

Camping over the 4th of July

We went up to Ninilchek again.
Aimee and Erin


getting set up


toasting marshmellows

They caught and released 5 kings...

At the Homer Spit

Getting ready for church, breakfast in the sun

We are painting our house!

It begins....

Bob sanded, patched and repaired to get ready to paint.

Then Bob and Scott spray painted the trim and eves

the back of the house after the trim has all been painted

the work continues as Joe goes up on the roof

poor Kodiak got too close

here there and everywhere had to be painted... Christy and Joe helped every step of the way

pizza break

we did windows while we were at it

Here it is almost done.... we still have the roof to paint black, and the front and back porches to sand and stain....but the house painting is finally done! What a ginormous project!!!

Memorial Day Weekend at Ninilchek

Back in Alaska... Scott by the Russian Jack River

around the campfire

shooting

early morning fishing.... no luck

our favorite old boat

clamming

cutting up the clams for clam chowder

good friends

one last shot as we are about to leave