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thør said:Oh my, tough day at the beach?
I'm heading to Puerto Vallarta on Monday night. I'll be sure to send you some sunshine. We're looking into fishing charters & kayak rentals. I'll be thinking of you as I drag my hand across the warm, turquoise sea.
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Dammit Delicacy I am sooooooooo jealous . All the beautiful sculptures on the beach promenade as well.Delicacy said:
Think I will go and have a cry now ........thanks.
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@}-}rebecca---- said:
We went in the winter of '04, too. It is beautiful. I couldn't believe that babies were wrapped up in winter coats and blankets while I was sweating my ass off. Even the buckets of Corona didn't help cool us down.
The sculptures are gorgeous. We took a little friend's Flat Stanley with us and got pictures of him on just about all the sculptures. Even got a picture of the policia holding Stanley.
We're staying at the BuenaVentura again. It's an older hotel, but real close to the melacon and the best Mexican restaurant in PV is right across the street. I can already taste the yummy mango margaritas that they whip up. Did you know that the McDonald's in PV serves beans & rice? I thought that was pretty cool.
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Delicacy said:We went in the winter of '04, too. It is beautiful. I couldn't believe that babies were wrapped up in winter coats and blankets while I was sweating my ass off. Even the buckets of Corona didn't help cool us down.
The sculptures are gorgeous. We took a little friend's Flat Stanley with us and got pictures of him on just about all the sculptures. Even got a picture of the policia holding Stanley.
We're staying at the BuenaVentura again. It's an older hotel, but real close to the melacon and the best Mexican restaurant in PV is right across the street. I can already taste the yummy mango margaritas that they whip up. Did you know that the McDonald's in PV serves beans & rice? I thought that was pretty cool.
Sounds like a GREAT time. I'm stuck going to AZ in Mar/Apr and then to Hawaii in May/June.
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I read this just after you posted it Delicacy but I had to go and have a nice long sulk.Delicacy said:We went in the winter of '04, too. It is beautiful. I couldn't believe that babies were wrapped up in winter coats and blankets while I was sweating my ass off. Even the buckets of Corona didn't help cool us down.
The sculptures are gorgeous. We took a little friend's Flat Stanley with us and got pictures of him on just about all the sculptures. Even got a picture of the policia holding Stanley.
We're staying at the BuenaVentura again. It's an older hotel, but real close to the melacon and the best Mexican restaurant in PV is right across the street. I can already taste the yummy mango margaritas that they whip up. Did you know that the McDonald's in PV serves beans & rice? I thought that was pretty cool.
http://media.expedia.com/hotels/1000000/20000/10500/10481/10481_11_b.jpg
I hope you have a wonderful time.
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Yes because you just wanted to see bewbies . I note you are going to Hawaii as well Thor.thør said:
You officially suck.......... :smilessweetly:
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Too Much Gear? Never!
This applies to fishing, skiing, hiking, canoeing, etc.
"When it comes to gear, there can never be too much
CRAIG MEDRED
OUTDOORS
(Published: February 25, 2007)
A third of the way around Spencer Loop on a pair of skis that felt painfully slow, there came the realization these boards were a set of Fischer RCSs. Normally, this would be a good thing. The Fischer RCS is a top-flight skate ski. Only one small problem.
The skis that had been waxed the day before to function in the 10-degree cold were a pair of Fischer SCSs. Further examination simply made more obvious why the chug to the top of this Hillside Park ski trail was proving more demanding than usual. These weren't just a pair of Fischer RCSs, they were a pair of Fischer RCSs in the "Skate Cold" model.
Normally, with temperatures down near single digits, this too would be a good thing. Only one small problem: The Skate Cold skis hadn't been scraped, waxed or Roto-brushed all season. And it had been so mild in the winter of 2005-2006, the skis never left the rack that year.
All of which led to the obvious conclusion as to why the skis were so slow: Stuck to their bottoms was old, soft storage wax dating back to the end of the 2004-2005 ski season. This got me to wondering -- there's plenty of time to think while laboring up Spencer at a snail's pace -- is it possible to have too much outdoor gear?
Certainly, if the gear rack in the entryway held one pair of skis instead of 15 pair, it would be easier to pick the appropriate pair.
Or would that be the inappropriate pair?
Beloved though my old Salomon Raid Blade skis might be for skijoring with the dog on our hilly neighborhood trail, they don't skate worth beans. So a guy would reasonably have to have at least two pairs of skis.
And if it is reasonable to have skate skis and skijor skis, isn't it reasonable to have backcountry skis and classic skis and, of course, downhill skis?
But there has to be a limit, right?
Does any one angler really need multiple four-piece, 9-foot, 8-weight flyrods in varying flexes? Not to mention that six-piece, 9-foot, 8-weight flyrod.
Years ago, I used to tease the woman of the house about being the Imelda Marcos of the North because of her passion for shoes.
Then one day, she realized my shoe collection had caught up.
There were summer and winter bike shoes, stiff bike shoes and flexible bike shoes, bike shoes with cleats for Crank Brothers pedals and cleats for SPD pedals.
There were downhill ski boots, telemark ski boots, skate-ski boots, classical-ski boots, combi boots and backcountry boots, often in near-identical versions to fit three-pin bindings, SNS skate bindings, SNS classical bindings, SNS pilot bindings, NNN bindings and NNN-BC bindings.
There were running shoes by the dozen. OK, so part of this was linked to a penchant for stockpiling good shoes found on sale because every time I find the perfect shoe the manufacturer quits producing it. But even without that, there were still trail runners, lightweight trainers, daily trainers, old racing flats and studded shoes for running on ice.
Then there were the miscellaneous shoes: plastic mountaineering boots, various cold-weather pac boots, overboots for both mountaineering and snowshoeing, lightweight wading boots to wear over the feet of the drysuit when rafting, felt-soled wading boots to wear over the feet of the waders when fishing, and lugged-sole wading boots to wear with the waders when duck hunting.
Now the woman of the house gives me grief about owning dozens upon dozens of shoes. How many pairs of bike shoes do you need anyway?, she asks.
Well, to tell the truth, probably about a fifth as many as I own.
There are only a couple pair that are regularly ridden. Some of the others are barely used.
The problem is, who wants to give up a pair of barely used bike shoes? You never know when you might need them.
You never know. ...
Right there starts the gear quagmire.
While writing this column, I got curious as to just how many skis we own and decided to count them.
Then I realized that only the skis we use regularly, semi- regularly or at least once every few years are in the entryway. There are a whole bunch more in the gear-storage shed. Some of them haven't been used for years.
Who wants to use old, straight, long and heavy GS skis when today's short, easy-turning shaped skis will do what the old skis did -- only better and easier? Those old skis really should be given away, but they somehow survived the cut when other skis went bye-bye.
Because, well, you never know. ...
Why, I might just fall down while skiing tomorrow, hit my head and wake up with the realization that what I really need to do is go back to skiing on an ancient pair of Dynastar giant- slalom skis.
Then again, probably not.
I guess I could blame my job for part of this. As outdoor editor of the Daily News, I'm supposed to know outdoor gear.
So I'm always buying new stuff to try out to keep up with constant technological improvements. But my friends don't have that problem, and they've all got tons of gear, too. One neighbor has so many skis that he can maintain grades of rock skis:
There are skis for trails where you might hit a rock, trails where the odds are high you will hit a rocks, trails where you are guaranteed to hit a rock, and trails with so little snow all you will hit are rocks.
Does he need all those skis? Who knows.
Do I really need 462 headlamps?
OK, I confess, I made that number up. I don't really have 462 headlamps. At least, I don't think I do. I do know that I have so many that it's more trouble than its worth to try to count them.
There are old Iditarod headlamps, early bike lights converted to headlamps, homemade halogen headlamps, first-wave LED headlamps, and a mix of the latest and greatest in Luxeon LEDs.
The latter are pretty much the only headlamps I use anymore. They're almost as durable as hockey pucks, and the LEDs draw no more than half the battery juice of halogen bulbs throwing a similar beam. Still, I keep some halogens around for sentimental reasons. I tried to give others away. I brought a whole bag of headlamps to the office one day and tried to foist them off on co-workers who get out a lot. There weren't any takers for the old halogens.
"Who wants that old junk?'' they asked. "Don't you have any of those new LEDs to give away?''
Well, actually, yes, in theory. There are some I hardly ever use, but the oldest of them are still new enough that parting would be difficult.
You never know. ...
You never know, for instance, how much fleece is enough fleece. The experts predicting global warming could be wrong. The next Ice Age could start next winter.
You really might need enough fleece to dress the Goodyear blimp. We could do that and more. In fact, I think that if we were to build a new house, there would be no need to purchase insulation. We could just stuff the walls with the fleece we already own, and that would take care of it.
But, of course, we need all this fleece -- or think we do.
Lightweight fleece. Heavyweight fleece. Fleece pullovers. Fleece vests. Fleece jackets. Fleece with pit zips. Fleece without pit zips. Fuzzy fleece. Smooth fleece. Reversible fleece.
Even recycled fleece, quite possibly made from all the other fleece on which somebody else finally gave up. Or maybe they lost it, because from what I've seen, I'm not alone in this gear addiction. And the one thing we know about addictions is that they are hard to overcome. Party down, gear dudes!"
This applies to fishing, skiing, hiking, canoeing, etc.
"When it comes to gear, there can never be too much
CRAIG MEDRED
OUTDOORS
(Published: February 25, 2007)
A third of the way around Spencer Loop on a pair of skis that felt painfully slow, there came the realization these boards were a set of Fischer RCSs. Normally, this would be a good thing. The Fischer RCS is a top-flight skate ski. Only one small problem.
The skis that had been waxed the day before to function in the 10-degree cold were a pair of Fischer SCSs. Further examination simply made more obvious why the chug to the top of this Hillside Park ski trail was proving more demanding than usual. These weren't just a pair of Fischer RCSs, they were a pair of Fischer RCSs in the "Skate Cold" model.
Normally, with temperatures down near single digits, this too would be a good thing. Only one small problem: The Skate Cold skis hadn't been scraped, waxed or Roto-brushed all season. And it had been so mild in the winter of 2005-2006, the skis never left the rack that year.
All of which led to the obvious conclusion as to why the skis were so slow: Stuck to their bottoms was old, soft storage wax dating back to the end of the 2004-2005 ski season. This got me to wondering -- there's plenty of time to think while laboring up Spencer at a snail's pace -- is it possible to have too much outdoor gear?
Certainly, if the gear rack in the entryway held one pair of skis instead of 15 pair, it would be easier to pick the appropriate pair.
Or would that be the inappropriate pair?
Beloved though my old Salomon Raid Blade skis might be for skijoring with the dog on our hilly neighborhood trail, they don't skate worth beans. So a guy would reasonably have to have at least two pairs of skis.
And if it is reasonable to have skate skis and skijor skis, isn't it reasonable to have backcountry skis and classic skis and, of course, downhill skis?
But there has to be a limit, right?
Does any one angler really need multiple four-piece, 9-foot, 8-weight flyrods in varying flexes? Not to mention that six-piece, 9-foot, 8-weight flyrod.
Years ago, I used to tease the woman of the house about being the Imelda Marcos of the North because of her passion for shoes.
Then one day, she realized my shoe collection had caught up.
There were summer and winter bike shoes, stiff bike shoes and flexible bike shoes, bike shoes with cleats for Crank Brothers pedals and cleats for SPD pedals.
There were downhill ski boots, telemark ski boots, skate-ski boots, classical-ski boots, combi boots and backcountry boots, often in near-identical versions to fit three-pin bindings, SNS skate bindings, SNS classical bindings, SNS pilot bindings, NNN bindings and NNN-BC bindings.
There were running shoes by the dozen. OK, so part of this was linked to a penchant for stockpiling good shoes found on sale because every time I find the perfect shoe the manufacturer quits producing it. But even without that, there were still trail runners, lightweight trainers, daily trainers, old racing flats and studded shoes for running on ice.
Then there were the miscellaneous shoes: plastic mountaineering boots, various cold-weather pac boots, overboots for both mountaineering and snowshoeing, lightweight wading boots to wear over the feet of the drysuit when rafting, felt-soled wading boots to wear over the feet of the waders when fishing, and lugged-sole wading boots to wear with the waders when duck hunting.
Now the woman of the house gives me grief about owning dozens upon dozens of shoes. How many pairs of bike shoes do you need anyway?, she asks.
Well, to tell the truth, probably about a fifth as many as I own.
There are only a couple pair that are regularly ridden. Some of the others are barely used.
The problem is, who wants to give up a pair of barely used bike shoes? You never know when you might need them.
You never know. ...
Right there starts the gear quagmire.
While writing this column, I got curious as to just how many skis we own and decided to count them.
Then I realized that only the skis we use regularly, semi- regularly or at least once every few years are in the entryway. There are a whole bunch more in the gear-storage shed. Some of them haven't been used for years.
Who wants to use old, straight, long and heavy GS skis when today's short, easy-turning shaped skis will do what the old skis did -- only better and easier? Those old skis really should be given away, but they somehow survived the cut when other skis went bye-bye.
Because, well, you never know. ...
Why, I might just fall down while skiing tomorrow, hit my head and wake up with the realization that what I really need to do is go back to skiing on an ancient pair of Dynastar giant- slalom skis.
Then again, probably not.
I guess I could blame my job for part of this. As outdoor editor of the Daily News, I'm supposed to know outdoor gear.
So I'm always buying new stuff to try out to keep up with constant technological improvements. But my friends don't have that problem, and they've all got tons of gear, too. One neighbor has so many skis that he can maintain grades of rock skis:
There are skis for trails where you might hit a rock, trails where the odds are high you will hit a rocks, trails where you are guaranteed to hit a rock, and trails with so little snow all you will hit are rocks.
Does he need all those skis? Who knows.
Do I really need 462 headlamps?
OK, I confess, I made that number up. I don't really have 462 headlamps. At least, I don't think I do. I do know that I have so many that it's more trouble than its worth to try to count them.
There are old Iditarod headlamps, early bike lights converted to headlamps, homemade halogen headlamps, first-wave LED headlamps, and a mix of the latest and greatest in Luxeon LEDs.
The latter are pretty much the only headlamps I use anymore. They're almost as durable as hockey pucks, and the LEDs draw no more than half the battery juice of halogen bulbs throwing a similar beam. Still, I keep some halogens around for sentimental reasons. I tried to give others away. I brought a whole bag of headlamps to the office one day and tried to foist them off on co-workers who get out a lot. There weren't any takers for the old halogens.
"Who wants that old junk?'' they asked. "Don't you have any of those new LEDs to give away?''
Well, actually, yes, in theory. There are some I hardly ever use, but the oldest of them are still new enough that parting would be difficult.
You never know. ...
You never know, for instance, how much fleece is enough fleece. The experts predicting global warming could be wrong. The next Ice Age could start next winter.
You really might need enough fleece to dress the Goodyear blimp. We could do that and more. In fact, I think that if we were to build a new house, there would be no need to purchase insulation. We could just stuff the walls with the fleece we already own, and that would take care of it.
But, of course, we need all this fleece -- or think we do.
Lightweight fleece. Heavyweight fleece. Fleece pullovers. Fleece vests. Fleece jackets. Fleece with pit zips. Fleece without pit zips. Fuzzy fleece. Smooth fleece. Reversible fleece.
Even recycled fleece, quite possibly made from all the other fleece on which somebody else finally gave up. Or maybe they lost it, because from what I've seen, I'm not alone in this gear addiction. And the one thing we know about addictions is that they are hard to overcome. Party down, gear dudes!"
thør
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Only two weeks until the annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament!
Tournament
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Tournament
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thør said:
Sounds like a lot of fun. I hope the ice in the harbor clears enough so the tournament can go on as scheduled. Furthermore; I saw that Homer bills itself as the halibut capital of the world. Do they have a similar tournament for halibut?
thør
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DAMN, record setting cold weather may halt fishing derby!
The winter king salmon derby in Homer is in jeapardy! Too much ice in the harbor! (Wasn't I flippant with an earlier remark about the ice?)http://www.adn.com/photo/2007/03/16/2696736-247-x-370.jpg
"HOMER -- Most winters, Norm Anderson merely has to climb aboard his boat in the harbor and make sure his oil-pan heater is still keeping the engine warm before he turns over the F/V Sea Otter for a winter king fishing excursion.
"Whenever I go out to start it up, she just purrs like a kitten," said Anderson, owner and operator of Norm's Saltwater Adventures.
This year isn't much different. The Sea Otter's motor starts up fine, and Anderson is certainly ready to fish.
He just can't go anywhere. The reason?
"The ice is killing me," Anderson said. "I've had to cancel close to 50 trips this winter because I just can't get out of the harbor."
A frozen harbor is nothing new around Homer. In fact, Homer Harbormaster Steve Dean said it's actually fairly normal. The difference this year, however, is how late the ice is sticking around.
"Its a little later in the year for ice to be socked in the harbor," Dean said. "It usually happens sometime in December or January."
Anderson agreed, noting that he has been chartering since the mid-1990s and fishing the area for more than 20 years.
"Certain years, it just freezes up and you deal with it," he said. "But this one has lasted for a while, and it's costing me tens of thousands of dollars."
And for those looking for a reprieve from the imprisoning ice, National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist Sam Albanese with the Anchorage office has some bad news: The low temperatures should last for days more.
"Right now, you guys in Homer are quite a bit off normal, with your low temperatures and high temperatures running around 15 degrees colder than usual," Albanese said.
Still, after 20 years of forecasting in Alaska, Albanese said the one thing he has learned is that the weather here just runs in extremes.
"Obviously, in Homer, you are moderated quite a bit by the ocean," he said. "But it's incredible how long this is persisting. And we don't see it letting up any time soon."
However, even if the ice were to let up and boats were able to escape, Dean said, he doesn't think the conditions are appropriate for smaller vessels.
"Its just not good fishing weather," Dean said. "The winds can change abruptly, and there is a lot of heavy freezing spray. When people go out on the water in this kind of weather, the ice really compromises our ability to respond to emergency incidents."
Anderson had a different slant on winter fishing.
"There are only a few of us guys who actually go out and fish year-round, and we've never run into any big problems," he said.
"It's not a matter of keeping people warm. I've got a nice, heated cabin that people can hang out in until the fish start biting. But when you can't even get out of the harbor, none of that really matters."
Dean is concerned because both Coast Guard ships that are normally stationed in Homer are not in port, and even if they were, neither is equipped for ice-breaking. In fact, any kind of emergency response would be tough.
"Currently, both our response harbor tug and our skiff are completely frozen in," Dean said.
With more than six inches of ice surrounding some boats, some owners are walking around their boats and between floats on the frozen harbor surface.
This has Dean worried, too.
"People need to know that it's not like walking out on Beluga Lake," he said. "Its very, very dangerous. There are tides shifting under the ice, and it's just not stable."
According to Dean, even the area around the mud flats can be dangerous.
"People really seem to like the novelty of walking on the harbor ice, but I know we have already lost a dog or two that went running on the flats and slipped between ice cracks," he said. "Things out there on the ice change quickly, and we just can't respond as promptly."
While Anderson and Dean may not agree on appropriate conditions for winter fishing, they both said they are ready for the ice to start clearing out so things can get back to normal.
"If we could get some big tides and southwest winds in there, it would clear that ice out in a matter of days," Anderson said. "We had some good tides recently, but those prevailing northeast winds just keep backing the ice further and further in."
And with commercial halibut season looming and a March 24 Winter King Salmon Tournament hinging on fishing-ground accessibility, everyone is eager to see things flowing freely again. That includes the organizer of all things fish derby-related, Homer Chamber of Commerce's Linda Winters.
"I am concerned about the icy harbor and have been thinking about it the past several days," she said. "My plan is to give it another week to see if it either warms up or blows away.""
http://www.adn.com/photo/2007/03/16/2696818-375-x-250.jpg
All I have to say is, "It's like it's in fucking ALASKA or someplace!" LOL
The winter king salmon derby in Homer is in jeapardy! Too much ice in the harbor! (Wasn't I flippant with an earlier remark about the ice?)http://www.adn.com/photo/2007/03/16/2696736-247-x-370.jpg
"HOMER -- Most winters, Norm Anderson merely has to climb aboard his boat in the harbor and make sure his oil-pan heater is still keeping the engine warm before he turns over the F/V Sea Otter for a winter king fishing excursion.
"Whenever I go out to start it up, she just purrs like a kitten," said Anderson, owner and operator of Norm's Saltwater Adventures.
This year isn't much different. The Sea Otter's motor starts up fine, and Anderson is certainly ready to fish.
He just can't go anywhere. The reason?
"The ice is killing me," Anderson said. "I've had to cancel close to 50 trips this winter because I just can't get out of the harbor."
A frozen harbor is nothing new around Homer. In fact, Homer Harbormaster Steve Dean said it's actually fairly normal. The difference this year, however, is how late the ice is sticking around.
"Its a little later in the year for ice to be socked in the harbor," Dean said. "It usually happens sometime in December or January."
Anderson agreed, noting that he has been chartering since the mid-1990s and fishing the area for more than 20 years.
"Certain years, it just freezes up and you deal with it," he said. "But this one has lasted for a while, and it's costing me tens of thousands of dollars."
And for those looking for a reprieve from the imprisoning ice, National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist Sam Albanese with the Anchorage office has some bad news: The low temperatures should last for days more.
"Right now, you guys in Homer are quite a bit off normal, with your low temperatures and high temperatures running around 15 degrees colder than usual," Albanese said.
Still, after 20 years of forecasting in Alaska, Albanese said the one thing he has learned is that the weather here just runs in extremes.
"Obviously, in Homer, you are moderated quite a bit by the ocean," he said. "But it's incredible how long this is persisting. And we don't see it letting up any time soon."
However, even if the ice were to let up and boats were able to escape, Dean said, he doesn't think the conditions are appropriate for smaller vessels.
"Its just not good fishing weather," Dean said. "The winds can change abruptly, and there is a lot of heavy freezing spray. When people go out on the water in this kind of weather, the ice really compromises our ability to respond to emergency incidents."
Anderson had a different slant on winter fishing.
"There are only a few of us guys who actually go out and fish year-round, and we've never run into any big problems," he said.
"It's not a matter of keeping people warm. I've got a nice, heated cabin that people can hang out in until the fish start biting. But when you can't even get out of the harbor, none of that really matters."
Dean is concerned because both Coast Guard ships that are normally stationed in Homer are not in port, and even if they were, neither is equipped for ice-breaking. In fact, any kind of emergency response would be tough.
"Currently, both our response harbor tug and our skiff are completely frozen in," Dean said.
With more than six inches of ice surrounding some boats, some owners are walking around their boats and between floats on the frozen harbor surface.
This has Dean worried, too.
"People need to know that it's not like walking out on Beluga Lake," he said. "Its very, very dangerous. There are tides shifting under the ice, and it's just not stable."
According to Dean, even the area around the mud flats can be dangerous.
"People really seem to like the novelty of walking on the harbor ice, but I know we have already lost a dog or two that went running on the flats and slipped between ice cracks," he said. "Things out there on the ice change quickly, and we just can't respond as promptly."
While Anderson and Dean may not agree on appropriate conditions for winter fishing, they both said they are ready for the ice to start clearing out so things can get back to normal.
"If we could get some big tides and southwest winds in there, it would clear that ice out in a matter of days," Anderson said. "We had some good tides recently, but those prevailing northeast winds just keep backing the ice further and further in."
And with commercial halibut season looming and a March 24 Winter King Salmon Tournament hinging on fishing-ground accessibility, everyone is eager to see things flowing freely again. That includes the organizer of all things fish derby-related, Homer Chamber of Commerce's Linda Winters.
"I am concerned about the icy harbor and have been thinking about it the past several days," she said. "My plan is to give it another week to see if it either warms up or blows away.""
http://www.adn.com/photo/2007/03/16/2696818-375-x-250.jpg
All I have to say is, "It's like it's in fucking ALASKA or someplace!" LOL
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I'm bumping thør's thread.
These are pictures taken while fishing in the Icy Straits area. Each time we venture out that way, we are awestruck by the incredible shows the whales put on. No matter how often I've seen the whales in action, it always feels like the first time. (I'll try to find the pictures of the whales that were so close to the boat that you can smell the stench of their baleen.)
Going
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Going
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Going
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Gone
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These are pictures taken while fishing in the Icy Straits area. Each time we venture out that way, we are awestruck by the incredible shows the whales put on. No matter how often I've seen the whales in action, it always feels like the first time. (I'll try to find the pictures of the whales that were so close to the boat that you can smell the stench of their baleen.)
Going
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Going
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Going
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Gone
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veryblueeyes
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Hey Sugar! Bless you bumping this thread.
Marlin time is coming up here. Deep sea fishing. OH yeah, miles off the shore.*grins*.
BTW, I miss Thor. Darnit.
Marlin time is coming up here. Deep sea fishing. OH yeah, miles off the shore.*grins*.
BTW, I miss Thor. Darnit.
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thør said:
Nice to be missed.
Runs up and tackles you. Yes, you were missed, my friend. How did my old home state treat ya? Go trout fishing?
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