This is definitely not the type of weather that is common in the summer here, but we'll take it! After work today, we went down to the river with the pup to bask in the glorious heat.
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| Notice the kiddos swimming in the river. Which was just frozen 2 weeks ago. Brave! |
We walked down the the docks and were lucky enough to catch one of the barges being loaded. This is what evening of excitement looks like in Bethel (:
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| Love how they just throw boats and trucks on top of the cargo pile |
Further down river, we even got to see our very first fish rack. The natives here set up fish camps all along the river where they stay for the summer to catch, dry, and smoke salmon. Since many of the people live the subsistence lifestyle, they need to catch enough fish during this time to feed their families for the whole year. Each salmon that is caught is filleted and hung out to dry on a large drying rack, like so:
And this is why I have no vegetarian friends in Alaska.
That's awesome you guys are keeping up with the blog page. Its nice to see what you guys are up to while you're up there. So....I looked at flights to Alaska......WOW!!! Lets just say that me and Toby wont be able to see you guys anytime in the next month or so :) But I'm hoping to see you guys when you make it back over-seas. Keep up with the updates in the blog. Toby likes to see the pictures of you and his boo ;)
ReplyDeleteP.S. did brandon get that pic I emailed him of toby????