We saw very little wildlife, no whales or dolphins, saw 2 young sea lions
When they are cleaning fish, all the bodies and bits go straight in to the sea, there are about 6 harbour seals that sleep on the log booms
A few bald eagles around, this was the only one close enough
One of the commercial boats towing a heap of lures, we saw them pulling fish in and releasing I presume pink salmon
These seagulls just seemed to sit around, i never saw them chase fish
These diving birds had no peace, there was allways another boat coming
Alaska only 70 miles away, where we were was the same latitude as the Isle of Man
The last two days did not live up to the first two, just not our days, there were plenty of fish caught, but we seemed to only get pinks, and one small halibut
Going home on the last day
Saw these two wolf fish in an aquarium at the airport
I kept the king salmon, the 2 coho and 2 halibut to bring home, all frozen and packed by the lodge, many of the others sent their fish to a cannery, and they would be sent to NZ in a couple of months. when we returned to Vancouver, there were a heap of boxes unloaded, the hotel they were staying at had a freezer they could use before their flight home.
We were staying another day with our friends, so when I arrived there reorganised their freezer and put it all in on top of some cardboard. The morning we were leaving I put the fish (minus a coho and halibut for our hosts) into the soft bag I took to the lodge surrounded with crumpled newspaper, then put that back in the freezer. Just before we left the bag of fish went in to my suitcase with all my clothes around it, my heavy stuff went in Judy's case or my carry on bag. When we arrived home nearly 20 hours later, it was still all solid, about 9kg of salmon and 5.6kg of halibut. The first piece of salmon smoked up beautifully, and plenty more to come.
The manager told me that between the 30 guests at the lodge we took away nearly two tons of fish fillets.
The lodge is only open for June July and August, with late July early August the best time. At the end of August all the boats are pulled from the water put on blocks and covered, when the place has been packed up the logging crews use the staff quarters.
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