Swissy
Livin' the retired life!
OK... time to start my usual posting of trips I do here in AK... sorry, but I just gotta! And yes, it is cigar related. Took of with 2 brother-in-laws (Wife's brother and sister's hubby) for a 4 day shrimping adventure in Prince William Sound, AK. Had a Forest Service cabin rented for the time, and it's shrimp season!! Time to put the Baroo in the water.
BUT... we'll start with the cigar first. Also on this trip, happened to fall my 20th anniversary of my hire date on the fire dept. In the Fire Service, 20 years is a big milestone. So... to celebrate this event, and the general trip I brought this bad boy
nice 80's Dom Perignon gifted to me by a generous BOTL a few years ago
proof of the burning.... the Baroo anchored in the bay behind me
almost gone, as is my Midnight Sun XXX black IPA
So... on to the adventure. Took the Baroo to the Goose Bay Forest Service cabin, unloaded, and started dropping shrimp pots.
unloading the Baroo
So... while we were letting the pots soak and fill with shrimp (we hope) we occupied our time with some sightseeing and fishing for rockfish. One one of these fishing trips, we had a super cool thing happen. A bald eagle was fishing right next to us!! It is AMAZING to watch them swoop down, target their meal and grab it with minimal splash. Better yet,it was a miracle but my very photo savvy bro-in-law (wife's brother) got photos! And, even more cool crap - I got it on HD video!!! Got some editing to do on the entire trip, but I'll post that someday soon.
so we go to one of our pots to check, and it's right along a super steep cliff (shrimp like STEEP, rocky places to live). As we're pulling the pots up we kept hearing this noise... "bang bang bang SPLASH... bang bang bang SPLASH" over and over. We didn't know what the hell it was until someone looked up a long way and saw these guys
they were knocking rocks off as they were moving around. And folks - that's damn near a 90 degree steep cliff. we sat and watch them for about a half hour... AMAZING to see them move across with no effort.
So one of the days was a really low tide - like a minus 3 foot or so. Guess the tide went out more than we planned!
you can see the cabin in the background- and yes, that's about 4feet of snow still on the ground. We said screw it and sat at the cabin and drank our breakfast
The reason for the trip
And if there was ever any question as to why we'd go after shrimp...
that's my wife's brother who is 6'5" and has really long arms, to get and idea of the size of that yummy morsel.
Overall a great trip other than my depthfinder died, and setting shrimp pots is depth dependent. So, we didn't do as good as I would have liked. But as a day NOT at work, the entire trip rocked! We ate like Kings, drank even worse, and had a great time. And... I have another cabin this Thursday lined up, then my brother is coming down for a 4 day weekend to go out!
And that cigar... :love: WOWEE that was good. My first, and only, Davidoff Dom. But I might have to start looking for a couple more it was that good - a new singe spot on my mustache as a result
(these are the scaled down images - slightly larger in my gallery)
See if this works:
Had a slow day at work so here's the video I threw together
BUT... we'll start with the cigar first. Also on this trip, happened to fall my 20th anniversary of my hire date on the fire dept. In the Fire Service, 20 years is a big milestone. So... to celebrate this event, and the general trip I brought this bad boy
nice 80's Dom Perignon gifted to me by a generous BOTL a few years ago
proof of the burning.... the Baroo anchored in the bay behind me
almost gone, as is my Midnight Sun XXX black IPA
So... on to the adventure. Took the Baroo to the Goose Bay Forest Service cabin, unloaded, and started dropping shrimp pots.
unloading the Baroo
So... while we were letting the pots soak and fill with shrimp (we hope) we occupied our time with some sightseeing and fishing for rockfish. One one of these fishing trips, we had a super cool thing happen. A bald eagle was fishing right next to us!! It is AMAZING to watch them swoop down, target their meal and grab it with minimal splash. Better yet,it was a miracle but my very photo savvy bro-in-law (wife's brother) got photos! And, even more cool crap - I got it on HD video!!! Got some editing to do on the entire trip, but I'll post that someday soon.
so we go to one of our pots to check, and it's right along a super steep cliff (shrimp like STEEP, rocky places to live). As we're pulling the pots up we kept hearing this noise... "bang bang bang SPLASH... bang bang bang SPLASH" over and over. We didn't know what the hell it was until someone looked up a long way and saw these guys
they were knocking rocks off as they were moving around. And folks - that's damn near a 90 degree steep cliff. we sat and watch them for about a half hour... AMAZING to see them move across with no effort.
So one of the days was a really low tide - like a minus 3 foot or so. Guess the tide went out more than we planned!
you can see the cabin in the background- and yes, that's about 4feet of snow still on the ground. We said screw it and sat at the cabin and drank our breakfast
The reason for the trip
And if there was ever any question as to why we'd go after shrimp...
that's my wife's brother who is 6'5" and has really long arms, to get and idea of the size of that yummy morsel.
Overall a great trip other than my depthfinder died, and setting shrimp pots is depth dependent. So, we didn't do as good as I would have liked. But as a day NOT at work, the entire trip rocked! We ate like Kings, drank even worse, and had a great time. And... I have another cabin this Thursday lined up, then my brother is coming down for a 4 day weekend to go out!
And that cigar... :love: WOWEE that was good. My first, and only, Davidoff Dom. But I might have to start looking for a couple more it was that good - a new singe spot on my mustache as a result
(these are the scaled down images - slightly larger in my gallery)
See if this works:
