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58 images Created 1 Feb 2024

A summer of subsistence kayaking
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  • Salmon fishing from the kayak
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  • A stream crowded with Pink Salmon.
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  • Being stormbound for most of our first subsistence trip, our primary protein source became Pink Salmon, caught by casting in stream mouths.
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  • Humpback Whale diving at close range, and passing just a few feet below our kayaks.
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  • Nancy Pfeiffer enjoys an encounter with a Humpback Whale in Chatham Strait. (MR)
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  • USA, Alaska, Prince William Sound.
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  • Nancy returns with a harvest of salmon and twisted stalk.
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  • USA, Alaska, Prince William Sound. Freshly picked Chanterelle mushrooms.
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  • Salmon strips in the smoker
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  • On many days in June, dinner was smoked Dolly Varden on a bed of Oyster leaves, with wild strawberries for desert.
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  • Sitka black-tailed deer browsing on Lambsquarter, the same plant that we harvested and ate.
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  • Pan-fried Rock fish, Spot shrimp, Rock fish ceviche, Twisted stalk leaves and berries.
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  • USA, Alaska, Prince William Sound.
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  • Rocky coastline on Chichigof island near White Sulfur Hot Springs.
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  • Cloudscape over an inside waterway
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  • Nancy hauling up a Dungeness Crab.
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  • The rains of August produced a bounty of Golden chanterelle mushrooms.
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  • USA, SE Alaska, Chatham Strait. Curious Sealion.
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  • USA, SE ALaska. Sea Anemone.
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  • USA, Alaska, Angoon, Chatham Strait. Nammatj 2 tent under the aurora.
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  • Map of the 686 nautical mile route we paddled.
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  • USA, Alaska, Glacier Bay National Park. Wild strawberries.
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  • USA, Alaska, Chatham Strait. Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for salmon in a river mouth.
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  • Crab dinner, with candied bull kelp, a Oyster leaf and Twisted stalk salad, served with a side of Sauteed Goosetounge and Bidarkee (Chitons).
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  • Grazing the strawberry benches of lower Lynn Canal.
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  • Early in the trip Nancy enjoys a rare calm morning paddling Lynn Canal.
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  • Dolly Varden dinner on the deck
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  • Nancy shows off a large Spot shrimp.
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  • Harvesting blueberries
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  • Nancy Pfeiffer sea kayaking in morning fog. (MR)
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  • Salmon filet with Fredrik's Swedish salmon sauce, a side of beach asparagus,  with salmon berries for dessert.
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  • Sunny day salmon salad on a bed of beach asparagus
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  • Nancy picking chanterelle mushrooms.
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  • USA, Alaska, SE Alaska. Red squirrel feeding on a spruce cone next to our tent.
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  • Pan fried Silver salmon, sauteed Chanterelle mushrooms, with Twisted Stalk and blueberrie salad.
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  • Bubble net feeding Humpback Whale in Chatham Strait
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  • Golden Chanterelle Mushroom.
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  • Clam digging.
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  • Nancy taking time to fly at Pirate Cove.
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  • Enjoying a quiet monent on Chichigof Island
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  • Smoked Salmon, spot shrimp, and huckleberries, on a bed of twisted stalk with spruce tip tea.
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  • The bath house at White Sulfur Hot Springs
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  • Driftwood on the rocky outer coast near White Sulphur Hot Springs.
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  • Clam chowder
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  • Rough water paddling on the outer coast of Yakobi Island.
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  • Kayaking with a bubblenet feeding humpback whale
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  • In late June, Nancy joyously caught our first three salmon of the season near Point Adolphus.
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