Wonderful weather

 Last night Abby and I walked down to the Marina and watched salmon being off loaded from charter boats and filleted on the spot.  It was very interesting to see how many different ways there is to fillet a salmon.

 Even the seagulls were helping.

 We stopped at a waterfront restaurant for a couple of beers.  We met a couple of FAA employees who had been fixing a radio at the top of one of the local glaciers.  They have to go in pairs due to safety concerns.  The live in Anchorage and their territory ranges from Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula over to Seward and Valdez.

One of the guys has lived in Alaska over 20 years.  He has 2 girls and a boy ages ranging from 8-13.  His kids love to fish and hunt.  He showed us a video clip on his IPhone showing his kids eating FISH EYES. Kind of killed our appetite!

As we were walking back to the RV we took these pictures near sunset of the mountains across the sound.

We woke up this morning to a virtually cloudless day.  Then around 9 A.M. we had what Alaskans call a Williwaw.  A williwaw is a sudden blast of wind descending from a mountainous coast to the sea. It blew really hard for about 30 minutes.  During this time the electrical power went out for at least an hour. By 11 A.M. we were back to normal.

We went for a drive around the area and stopped at the Salmon Fish Hatchery on the other side of the sound.  This fish hatchery is for the advancement of "Pink" Salmon and to a lesser degree, Sockeye Salmon.

Check out the male to female ratio.  Single men should have it so good.

We have seen spawning salmon in Michigan and California but what we saw today boggles the mind.

What looks like mud flats is thousands of spawning salmon trying to make their way into the hatchery weir where they were born.  They were literally clawing their way over each other to make it into the narrow confines of the fish ladder that ends in the egg processing building.

As part of the fish hatchery there is a hydroelectric facility across the street that is fed by this beautiful waterfall.

Abby was fed by this interesting individual who had a unique food truck in the parking lot.

How about this weather.  A high of 62 today and clear skies.

I've talked about the warnings of how to deal with a bear.  I found this sign today

It is missing one important note.  "Always keep someone between you and the bear"!

Speaking of signs, you won't see these in Texas.

Off to dinner on the waterfront.  Tomorrow is the start of the "Womens Silver Salmon Derby".