Fish

With Paul''s challenge we're down to Deer and Fish. Up until a half hour ago I thought we'd have to declare defeat in the Fish category.

Dean and Kurt tried fishing but we have no photos of their attempts and they were thoroughly unsuccessful so no pictures there.

There were opportunities to stop where salmon were supposedly spawning but we didn't. At a particular spot on the Kenai we drove past thousands of fisher-people lining the river attempting to snag salmon. We have no picture of them nor their catch.

I knew we had photos of whales.



On our excursion out of seward on a boat we saw numerous humpback whales. The views were often spectacular but alas our trigger fingers never got them at their best. Here's a fin.


Here's a tail. But hold your comments because I realize that a whale is not a fish, (though personally the fact that the creature was probably larger than our boat should count for something).

So I was ready to concede defeat but then I remembered our excursion down to Homer.


Somewhere near the Salty Dawg


I took a photo of some guys making money. When the sports-fisher-people came in with their catch, the guys would, for a fee, fillet and package the halibut for them.