After looking all over for a sweatshirt, we decided to walk back to camp via the beach and go on an agate hunt. Kailey was the lucky agate finder today -- believe it or not she found it in the parking lot!! Crazy for sure, but we will take it!! Then it was back to the trailer for lunch. While we were eating lunch, I noticed something that appeared to be a really long line of logs floating by.. we got out the binoculars and realized that it was actually a ton of Sea Lions that were in a line!! It was really cool. They would float so far down and then break formation and swim back up stream and start all over again! Really fun to see them playing in the water with one another!
Before we knew it Rick was calling to let me know that he would be back to the dock shortly with another load of Halibut -- yay!! I went down and gladly picked him up. He once again got his limit on halibut and would be busy vacu-sealing the fillets for awhile. While he did that, Kailey and I took Bo out for a beach walk (and more agate hunting). We came back to camp to find "Story Time with Rick" (as Kailey called it)... We had new neighbors and they were all gathered around Rick chatting away about, shocking... fishing! Ha!! As it turns out the neighbors were on a family reunion adventure that included sisters & brothers (and all their kids) that were traveling around Alaska for a week this summer. The kids lived all over the USA and flew into Anchorage to meet up. They were sooo nice and had kids that were the same age as our kids.... needless to say, they all hit it off and took off to the fishing hole right behind our camps. Kailey hit it off with the older daughter, Liz and they just had a great time visiting all night! Rick who was up really early went off to bed and the kids and I joined them at there camp for s'mores and more visiting. We were able to see a bald eagle fly right over our heads at camp and land on a light post right across the way from us... we all walked over and got a REALLY close picture of it. After the eagle fun, it was back to there camp for more visiting... The sisters of the group and myself sat around the fire and talked away, while the kids fished. In Alaska, during the summer, it doesn't get dark until VERY late... ha! Well, before I knew it -- it was VERY late and actually getting dark! Um, yes myself and the kids were all still up playing!!! We all decided to let the fire go out and headed off to bed. Needless to say, it was a VERY early morning!! :) An early morning that would include packing up and heading back to Soldotna!! Ahhhh!! Oh well, it was worth it - we had such a fun evening with our new friends!
Cool shot with Kailey's camera that is black/white&color:
The Sea Lion log-boom:
Eagle at camp:
Cool fishing boat off of camp:
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