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Dog Days, 2018

Labor Day is approaching and the long hot smoky days of summer draw are drawing to a close.  Fire season necessitates sticking close to home over the summer but there have been some chances to escape to a nearby lake or two, and even a couple of days on the coast.  Here’s a couple of shots from the last month or two of adventures.

Paulina Lake never disappoints with its blue water and beautiful sunsets.  The kokanee are pretty tasty too.

Sunset over Paulina

 

Before fires completely filled the sky with smoke later in August we were treated to a few nice color filled sunsets, including this one spotted on the way back from an evening trip to Paulina.

 

Smoky Sunset

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Southeast Alaska, 2018, Part 2

Days in Alaska in May are long, even in southeast.  All those hours of light leave you wanting to seize each hour you are given.  With that in mind we didn’t waste too much time before we were up and ready to explore, and headed out on a hike.  There are definitely places with worse plants (I’m talking about you, southwest Oregon, and your poison oak), but after being reintroduced to devils club I can say I didn’t miss it one bit.

Devils Club, even the leaves have thorns

 

There was a nice spruce and hemlock forest that was dense enough it made getting around pretty easy.

 

 

Mossy Understory

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Tuna Run, 2017

It’s mid August, the dreaded County fair has come to an end, it’s hot and smoky with no relief in sight.  What to do?  Head to the coast for tuna of course!

 

Chelsea Rose, Your Source for Tuna

 

When it is really hot inland it’s pretty common for the coast to be fogged in, cloudy and cool.  That was certainly the case this time around.  It was a welcome break after weeks of heat and quite a bit of wildfire smoke.

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