Wednesday Sept 2...Haines, Alaska

Happy Birthday Kenny!

After a little reorganization of the truck and a lovely little breakfast at a local bakery, we're off the Chilkoot lake for a little fishing.

We are only there a minute when Mikey catches his first salmon. Then over the next 30 minutes he catches 18 fish. All good size, all salmon, all he sets free. I don't know how long we would have stood there by the river fishing had we not had a visitor. YES A BEAR!

We watch as the bear moves down to river toward us, on the opposite side, and fishes. We decided bears have the right a way so we let him fish without us!

We have a 3pm meeting in town with Dara for some fun bill paying on line. Thank you Dara for being so smart and so sweet as to take care of things while we are gone. YOU ARE THE BEST!

After our little work session, our new friends from Michigan return from halibut fishing and invite us to join them for a fresh fish dinner. You know we accepted! We added some fresh salmon spread Mikey made from our catch and some smoked halibut we purchased in Kodiak. We had a lovely dinner by the beach and then we went back to the lake for more bear watching. I guess everybody knows but me that bear watching is best done at daybreak or sunset when they are most likely feeding.

AND YES.....BEARS, BEARS & MORE BEARS...more eagles & more salmon & another lovely sunset.

Back to the campsite for a gathering around a campfire. Before the evenings over we have lots more new friends and hear lots more travel stories.