Clamming, crabbing, and fishing....

This past week was a lot of fun...Sam and Brandie came up to visit and so it was a good chance for Aspen and I to get outside and do a few of my favorite activities.

~Fishing on the boat ~

That is actually an 80 lb. halibut - it just looks small under water

Matt and Greg having fun

Greg reeling in a big halibut

Matt looks like he's getting a little tired from reeling

She kinda just hung out right here the whole time

~River Fishing ~

Hiking the Bartlett...Sterling, Katie, and the kids were also with us

Just hanging out

The secret weapons

Greg caught a pink salmon

This picture makes me laugh because of the face she is making

Brandie and her pink salmon

Greg caught this sockeye and one more after that

Greg watching Aspen while I fish

Hiking out of the river....I wish that I had pictures of us leaving because all of us were stranded on the other side of the river when the tide came up. The guys had to carry us girls and the kids on their shoulders so that we could get across.

These flowers were off to the side of the trail

~Hanging out at the dock~

Some of the boats that come in (none of those are Greg's)

Sam and Brandie seeing what they can bring up

Greg cleaning the fish from the day

~Crabbing~

The guys pulling up the king crab pot

~Clamming~

We all went out clamming one morning...dug up a few and then heard later that we couldn't eat them because it was Red Tide...these didn't look very appetising anyway so I was OK with that :)

That's one of them - it's called a gooey duck (that one was also broken with the shovel...mom and dad will probably get a kick out of this pic)

They were not easy to dig out

Halibut carcass that washed up

I just walked around...it was fun to watch :)

Pics from the week...

Fireweed back by the ponds behind the airport

Me and the little bear on Greg's boat

Greg gettting ready to fillet some halibut

This little swing arrived yesterday...I think it might be a life saver :) So far she seems to enjoy it.

New Gustavus Dock

By next fall we should have a brand new dock. I've always wondered how docks were built...so here is a few pics to show the progress - it's kinda cool to see a couple tug boats bringing in a barge full of rocks and then watching the bulldozers out in the middle of the water push it all around. I'm kinda sad that the old one is going to be gone but it is getting to be unsafe so the new one will be a good thing.

When it's super high tide the water covers these.

Flowers at the house

So these pics are of the flowers at our house - These first five photos Scott will really appreciate :)

Ok, so I'm really happy about this first one...it's fireweed and I've been trying to get it to grow at my house for 3 years. I don't know if it got here from the wind, the birds, or maybe even the seeds that I spread around a couple years ago but I counted 6 stalks of it and it pretty much made my day. The only problem is that it is behind our fire pit...so not the prettiest of locations but eventually we will have lots and it will spread to the better areas :)

Another thing that I'm very excited about is this one and only daisy that sprouted up out of no where. I was just telling Greg that I'm very jealous of all the people in town that have these wild daisies growing in there fields and now look what popped up!!! Yay!

These are cute...I've got a bunch of them.

Yes, I know it's a weed and I've got quite a few of them...

This is my giant rhubarb plant that I started last year. I'm totally shocked that it came back after last year when the moose stomped it into nothing. Apparently they are very hardy.

These next pics are flowers that I planted this year.