{"id":307,"date":"2007-08-19T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T07:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2007\/08\/19\/back-to-unk-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T07:58:13","slug":"back-to-unk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2007\/08\/19\/back-to-unk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to UNK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been back in Unalakleet for almost a week now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been doing some consulting work for the Bering Strait School District which kept me pretty busy all of last week.\u00a0 Over the weekend however I had some time to do a little playing.\u00a0 First off before I get started.\u00a0 Many of you may have heard about the dead walrus&#8217;s washed up on shore between Unalakleet and Elim.\u00a0 Well if you haven&#8217;t there are a reported 80 of them one being right out in front of the house I&#8217;m staying in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/walrus.jpg\" title=\"Walrus\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/walrus.jpg\" alt=\"Walrus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of them are missing their heads which leads many to believe they were being hunted\/poached just for their ivory.\u00a0 This is a very sad deal.\u00a0 I truly do not have any problems with the hunting of marine mammals or any other animal for that matter as long as they are being used for food.\u00a0 To just kill these huge animals for their ivory alone is just a shame.<\/p>\n<p>So as you can probably guess its a bit smelly on the beach right now.\u00a0 So back to the fun filled weekend.\u00a0 Saturday morning Randy and his two kids Jamie and Kendra went up river to do a little salmon fishing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post a little video hopefully tomorrow that I edited up last year showing what its like to go up river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/silver.jpg\" title=\"Silver\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/silver.jpg\" alt=\"Silver\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fishing went pretty well.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as amazing as it usually is on the Unalakleet river since the water was pretty high making the silt level in the water to increase which makes the water very murky.\u00a0 We were able to catch 12 salmon and two trout in our little trip which makes for some tasty dinner this winter.\u00a0 I am looking forward to Erins delicious salmon chowder.<\/p>\n<p>That evening Greg and Kim Johnson invited a few of us over for a BBQ at their house.\u00a0 The weather was beautiful so spending time outside with freinds was very nice.\u00a0 Greg cooked up all the food on the grill and we ate and visited throughout the evening.\u00a0 On the way home from that social gathering I stopped by Vanessa Nasset&#8217;s place.\u00a0 She had invited me over for dinner there as well as a few other friends from town.\u00a0 I was able to catch up with her and her husband John, Conrad and Jasmine, and Jason and Deb.\u00a0 It was fun to spend time with all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Today Gary and I borrowed Kim and Greg&#8217;s car and headed out the road in search of some ripe blue berries.\u00a0 It was so nice of Kim and Greg to let us borrow their vehicle.\u00a0 It cuts down on the noise and the dust you normally encounter riding on a honda (4-wheeler) up the gravel road.\u00a0 We found some berries.\u00a0 Here is Gary picking way like crazy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/gary2.jpg\" title=\"Gary Picking\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/gary2.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Picking\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the tasty blue berries we had some spectacular views.\u00a0 The sun was out and everything is green right now.\u00a0 Its fun to be up on top of some of these ridges looking out over the valleys below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/landscape1.jpg\" title=\"Landscape\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2007\/08\/landscape1.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ran across some pretty fresh moose tracks while we were out but weren&#8217;t lucky enough to run into him.\u00a0 Maybe since I missed the one today it will raise my chances for getting one on Friday or Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside to being out in the countryside was the little bugs that kept flying into our noses, ears, and eyes and crawling all over us.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t notice them biting me until I looked down to find blood spots all over my legs.\u00a0 Sneaky little guys.\u00a0 So we retreated to the car with about a half a gallon of berries.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I may be flying to St. Michale to shoot some video.\u00a0 If I do I will be able to spend a little time with Dan Eidie the principal out there.<\/p>\n<p>More on that adventure to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been back in Unalakleet for almost a week now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been doing some consulting work for the Bering Strait School District which kept me pretty busy all of last week.\u00a0 Over the weekend however I had some time to do a little playing.\u00a0 First off before I get started.\u00a0 Many of you may 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