Saturday, July 14, 2012

Campfires and cooler weather


July 9, 2012

Still at the Russian River.  Charlie went fishing early this morning, and I stayed and took care of our internet connection.  I was able to update the data pass and get connection well enough to enter a few blogs, but too slow for many pictures.  I did get the one of Charlie talking to Santa uploaded though- which was an important one. : )

We have decided to take the ferry over to Kodiak Island – I called and made the reservations.  We leave Homer on the 22nd, and come back the 28th.  We will be taking Didi over there and hope to leave Bessie in overflow parking here at the park.  It is one of those things we both decided we needed to take advantage of while we are here.  They have the world’s largest brown bears (due to their being well fed by the salmon there) and the wildlife and fishing is supposed to be very good.  We are excited about going.

We gathered some wood for our fire tonight, we even have our awning up!  It is the first place we have stayed long enough to do that.  It rained again, so Charlie went out and washed off Didi and Bessie – Didi is actually shining – she badly needed a bath.  

Cooked most of dinner over the campfire tonight.  We had fried potatoes and grilled corn on the cob, and salmon patties.  I did cook the salmon patties over the camp stove, everything else was over the wonderful fire that Charlie built.  I even roasted marshmallows.  It was all delicious, the potatoes were a bit smoky from the fire, but it made them even better and the corn we had purchased at IGA was fresh and sweet, and perfectly done.  Probably not as good as "Curtis corn" we both hate we will be missing that this summer....

We sat by the fire for a long time tonight, Charlie  made another great fire, which was a good thing , because it was pretty cool out there when the wind started blowing.I think it has been in the 50's during the day and 40's at night.  But the bugs do not like the cold and have virtually gone into hiding! 

Charlie said he saw someone catch 5 fish today, (dude in red sweatshirt) - we have got to figure this out- and start catching some too1

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