Load after load after load after....

Again, I forgot about this little post! Loading up wood, fixing fourwheelers, getting things done CYAK style! What a great group of people to work with and a beautiful place, this blog was written sometime near the end of July.

     Ok so it really hasn't been that many loads, but seven is a lot if you consider the fact that it takes about two hours to haul stuff up to camp and come back down to town. What were we hauling? Wood! and lots of it!
     Mae is an elder in Unalakleet who decided to donate the massive stack of firewood next to her home to Bible Camp. Using the big red camp truck we slowly have been knocking away at the pile, and finally yesterday we found ground underneath the mound. Needless to say we were slightly excited!

     Not that Mae will ever read this but many thanks go out to her for the donation. It should keep Bible Camp stocked with firewood for about 2 years. That's a huge help to the kind of work that goes into getting the camp read in the spring. Its a load off our backs for next year and a load off her back to have it out of her yard! It is donations like these as well as financial ones that keep Bible Camp running and in full working order to continue to serve the youth here in Alaska. Here's a few pictures of the process- and a few things we ran into on the way up!

1 day off + 1 great family + 1 brown dog (+one month late)

Here's what happens when you get busy- you forget things! Yikes, I wrote this little blog about a great day-trip I took with a family while in Unalakleet this summer. Check it out! (and remember its from the end of July.)


     Saturday after sleeping in most of the morning I heard a knock on my door. The phone was for me. One of my intern buddies was on the line telling me that they were headed up to fish camp and would I like to come?? Um ya!

Off we go!

     Off I went to cram some breakfast down, and run down to the boat dock. I hopped in and off we went, upriver for about 1/2 hour to the family's granddad's cabin. It was a cool piece of property with a great little beach. We Spent a few minutes there and loaded up a seining net. We went back down river a bit to a longer beach shoal to do our seining. Katiya (my intern friend) and I hopped out of the boat with the end of the net and her dad drug it across the river in the boat. We walked downriver as the boat floated downstream and then toward the end of the beach the boat came in toward our shore and we pulled the net in.. Pretty meager first round, I'm sure it will be better in a few weeks when the silvers come in but that time we only got 9 humpys and a decent sized chum. The seine net has a weighted rope at the bottom and floats at the top, thus as it floats downstream and the fish swim up, we come away with the catch!

Humpys and one decent sized Chum

Cabin could use some work, but a nice spot!

     After piling everyone back into the boat we headed back up river to camp to cut fish and eat some lunch. I tried my hand at cutting fish with an ulu (that's that big knife I'm using in these pictures- remember to click on them to launch into fullscreen nifty viewer mode!).

             

     

Victory! I think..

Then helped keep the fire going for the fish soup (I'll post the native word for it if I remember to ask for it again...)

Recipe?

-river water

-fresh cut humpy

-onions

-salt

-pepper

-potatoes (though these were forgotten)

-seal oil

Look at that pot of deliciousness

     Tasty? Definitely. SO simple. Soo delicious. After a bit of rod and reeling we roasted a mallow and headed for town. On the way back we decided to spend some time on the beach on the far side of town, beachcombing, hanging the fish, running the pup through the water, and just enjoying the fresh breath the sea.

     It was a beautiful and entertaining trip! There were six of us total- Katiya, her dad Karl, 7 year old brother Kael, and their younger cousin Colton (who talks a mile a minute) and one lovable pooch, Mocha. Here's a few more pictures to finish out this post-