Rain,Rain,Rain!

It's raining in Alaska--finally! We really need it, but did it have to start the day after I finished summer school?????? It figures aye!

Sue Martilla is here and we went dipnetting with Beth, David and Max at the mouth of the Kenai River and Cook Inlet. Here is the story on dipnetting:
-You have to be a resident of AK for a year
-You can get 25 salmon per person, and 10 more for each family member
-You use this huge net on a very long pole
-You wear waiters and stand waist high in the water
-You wait for a Red (salmon--the best they say) to swim into your net and then you catch it!

Now, let me set the stage...we walk down to the beach (the sand is black) to find Beth's husband and son, a see thousands, and I do mean thousands of people, in various stages of dipnetting. There are fish heads, guts, and seagulls all over the place. The fisher-people are lined up in the water with their nets out ready to scoop up a salmon at any moment. Kids are running around having a blast, tents are set up along the dunes, others are cleaning and filleting the fish, all in all, it is quite a festive event! Check out the pictures because they tell the story better then I could ever! On a more serious note--this is food for the year for most families, not to mention that it is the best salmon in the world they say!!

Going to the beach is definitely a different experience here!!!!!!!!!!