Shrimping & Hiking
Yesterday Bill, Bill 3, and I headed out in Costello’s boat to drop a couple of shrimp pots. The secret: cat food!
Here is our local “Vana” displaying some tastey cat fish just waiting to entice some nice fat shrimp to our pots.
As you can see, the weather is nice. I think Bill 3 brought the sunny weather to Valdez. Everyone says it’s been a rainy summer.
Today, Thursday, we had another blue sky day so we decided to hike the Shoup Bay Trail to Gold Creek. It’s a hot one! It feels like 80 degrees out, but when we returned from our trek, the thermometer at 3:30 said 67 degrees. Of course we loaded up with plenty of water, but having nothing with for Rudy, Bill 3 created a nifty and efficient drinking bowl using some of the plant leaves along the trail.
Here’s a couple of handsome guys I happened upon on the trail. We never made it all the way to Gold Creek. The trail was only maintained about half the way out there and the stinging nettles were killers.
Remember that cat food? We have big plans for those cat food cans. I’ll keep you posted.
[...] We hiked out a ways until the trail became unkept and the stinging netles out numbered the other plants on the trial. We headed back towards town and stopped off on the beach along the way to have a little snack of apples and cheese. The dog was with, and was pretty thirsty. We didn’t want him to drink the ocean water, so I constructed a makshift bowl out of some big leaves. My mom posted some pictures of the bowl on her blog. [...]