King.
by Mike
My dad got hold of an enormous king salmon, the largest he’s ever caught. They fought for 20 minutes as the salmon repeatedly ran for its life, but the hook was well-set. It was a monster, weighing almost 50 pounds (42)!
(Here are a bunch of pictures of my dad in his heaven)
Yakutat, Alaska
by Mike
Some halibut are so big you have to put a bullet in them before they come in the boat. If you were to net one and bring it in, it could break your legs or worse.
Once a boat was found floating adrift. In the bottom of the boat was a dead fisherman and a dead halibut – the halibut had killed the fisherman when it was brought aboard, then it suffocated on the deck.
The halibut pictured above was 120 lbs.
A girl lights incense for the Buddha. Bangkok, Thailand.
by Mike
For whatever reason, I didn’t pull out my camera until the end of the day yesterday, so I have to remember the following scenes using the miracle of writing…
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It was light at 4am because we were so far north and I laid on the couch where I woke and watched the men get ready to go fishing. For a few minutes I pretended I was doing serious independent travel and imagined describing the scene in my dispatches home: “These men are obsessed with coffee. They drink it every morning, at least two cups, and then bring a thermos with them on the boat. When they run out of coffee on the boat everyone crashes and takes turns napping on the narrow benches. They play cards late into the night and laugh constantly and have dedicated their lives to fish.”
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I was lucky enough to win* (* from my dad) a trip to Yakutat, Alaska last weekend! The first day we got in we went to the Hubbard Glacier and navigated small icebergs to get close enough to hear the thunder of ice breaking down. The glacier is 70 miles long and we were looking at its mile-long face.
We love to travel and learn. We like eating and sleeping and going on the internet and we can do all of those things from anywhere in the world. We are originally from Seattle, but no longer stay for the winters. We must leave and see new places and great ways to live. We enjoy living well and seeing how others live well.
This winter we traveled in Indonesia, Thailand Myanmar, France, Germany, Spain. We are currently home in Seattle, but Mike likes to think about things and blog about them.
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