Fish Tales

Alright kids, its been quite sometime since I've written a new entry and I'm starting to hear about it, so here I am! So much has happened I need to try and sort everything out.

Lets see, the last big exciting thing that I got to do was go out on the boat with the guests for some deep sea fishing. The trip only had 3 guys on it so each day one of the employees got to go out on their boat with them. It was such an exciting experience. The boats all leave at 7am everyday, and watching all of the El Cap boats leave together, speeding off towards the mountains, is quite the rush. As we were going out, we saw a couple of fawns on the shore and an eagle that apparently sits on the same sign every morning to see everyone off. Each one of the spots that we went to was about 20-30 minutes away. We went to the Island that was the furthest north and west that you can go in Southeast Alaksa. I think that Island was called Coronation, but I may be wrong. We also fished at Little Beach and Port Allis. The fishing has been really slow (which of course has caused some tension amongst the captains) so I didn't really catch anything amazing. I caught about 12 fish and could only keep 3. The three that I kept were black rock fish and I caught them while we were salmon fishing. I also caught a couple of flounders and yellow eye that were too small to keep so we threw them to the eagles. We got the eagles to come right up to our boat! The other fish that I caught were called Turbins, which is a type of flounder with razor sharp teeth and just plain ugly looking. The thing that was frustrating about them was that we would catch them while we were bottom fishing at 300+ feet and have to reel them all the way back up, just to throw them back into the ocean. Overall it was just fun. The landscape around here is absolutely breathtaking. It was worth it just to go out and to be able to experience that. We saw whales right out in front of the boat and that just made my day.

The thing about deep sea fishing is that its extremely tiring. I don't think that it would necessarily be my idea of a vacation. And I now know why we have a massage artist at the lodge. I appreciate now what the captains have to go through everyday, I really dont' know how they do it.

There really hasn't been too many exciting events around here lately. Long story short...The bartender that was hired for the summer wasn't cutting it, so they offered me her job! I've been the bartender at the King Fisher lounge now for four days. I'm loving it. I'm finally getting all of the drinks down...I make a mean key lime pie martini...my bloody mary's need a little work. Plus its just fun being behind the bar talking with the guests and getting to know people. This past trip there were four guys here from Detriot, so it was fun to chat it up with them.

Really there hasn't been too much to update on. I'm still loving it here and every day I find great things to get into. Yesterday my friend Scotty and I build a fire pit and just sat out in the woods around the fire. Its just little things like that that go on all the time.

Its lunch and laundry time so I must run!

Love you all!
CW