This part three of my Fishing in Alaska series and if you’ve yet to check out part one and part two it might be a good place to start. After the reds and chums finish their run there’s a week intermission until pinks come in full force. Our boat ties up at the dock in […]
Fishing in Alaska – Horrendous Boat Crash
While a lot of work and excitement certain parts of life on a salmon tender do tend to become monotonous. Tying the boat up to the dock is one of them. If you read Fishing in Alaska – Life on a Salmon Tender part 2 you’ll know that arriving at the dock at 4am I […]
Fishing in Alaska – Life on a Salmon Tender part 2
If you’re just arriving you should check out Salmon Tender Life part 1 and the basics: Salmon 101. Just before mid season Chums, Reds, Silvers and Kings start to run simultaneously. The openers jump from 12 hours to 48 or 72 hours. The fishing grounds move in from an 8 hour ride from the dock […]
Fishing in Alaska – Life on the Salmon Tender part 1
Think of it this way. Go into your bedroom and imagine it has a small shower, a toilet, a kitchen and a table. Your bed is replaced with a bunk that’s about 2” shorter than your body. It has a lip around the edge to keep you from rolling out in the waves. Everything is […]
Tidepool Colisium
Here’s yet another little gem from Cordova, Alaska. Out at the end of the road at Hartney Bay you can walk along the shoreline of the Prince William Sound at low tide. It’s not sandy beaches, but a craggy, rocky sort of shoreline that gives home to all manner of tidepool creatures. You never know […]
Ships of Old Alaska
I’ve been digging around the Internet and the library for a few days now pursuing my own interest in the great ships of Alaska’s history. The information is startlingly scattered so I have set about creating an account of the boats that have been a part of Alaska’s discovery, boom, gold rush, fishing industry, tourist […]
Little Birds of the Copper River Delta
I’ve never fancied myself much of a bird watcher, but you can hardly help it here. Cordova, Alaska and the Copper River Delta are known for their bird watching amongst so many other things. After a while you just want to know them. I’ve decided to keep a chronicle of my encounters with the little […]
Alaska Marine Highway in Photographs
This is now my third trip between Whittier and Cordova Alaska aboard the marine vessel Aurora of the Alaska Marine Highway system. This time I was fortunate enough to get some great photographs from dock to dock that you can see below. In my original post The Alaska Marine Highway System – MV Aurora I […]
Digging Razor Clams in the Prince William Sound
So here’s a funny story without much content. You know how is when you get some hair-brained scheme in your head and ignore absolutely every piece of advise and research that could possibly squash your hopes and dreams, so it was with the clams. A little online research, of course, indicated that clamming season was […]