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Tag: Sockeye Salmon

  • Cycle of Life

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    Yesterday we awoke to 2026’s first summer/fall transition snowfall … after all … it is August here in the Last Frontier A short road trip to Hatcher Pass was in order. Here’s a few summer/fall transition snowfall scenes that delighted our eyes with wonder. While Ellie chose to stay in the car, I took off…

  • Lucrative Fishing Fun

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    The annual Sockeye salmon run in the Kenai River is peaking.  Huge schools are swimming upstream to their spawning tributaries. Sooooo …… Grant and I decided to make a 3 hr. scenic trek south in hopes of transporting some Sockeyes from the river to our freezer. Dipnetting is a favorite method of harvesting salmon in…

  • Beginning and Endings

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    Each fall I’ve been privileged to witness one of nature’s incredible wonders . . . anadromous sockeye salmon (reds) returning to relinquish their own life to create new life. After spending 1-2 years in their freshwater birthplace, they journey to the frigid waters of the Bering Sea. It’s believed they navigate by magnetic cues, position…

  • Prince William Sound

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    Three days of rainy weather tends to dampen one’s spirits. Three days of rainy weather aboard a friend’s boat, rocked to sleep each night on gentle waves, encircled by the magnificent wonders of Prince William Sound’s lifts one’s spirits. Top it off with a stringer of sockeye salmon, and  . . . Life is Good!…