More beach combing and spring waterfowling on the beach.
Still strikes me as odd to see puddle ducks in the surf.

Saw some whales.


Shot some birds,


and read books by the fire!

nice pics looks like fun

looks cold

Scott, thanks for sharing some photos, wish my son Derek and I could have been camped on the beach out that way myself, you know the story. Hope to see you this fall.

Dirk

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Originally posted by wazza56:
looks cold

Was and wasn't. Snow bank next to the tent is decieving. Temps were not below freezing at night and during the day rose to the mid 60's,f. When the sun was out I'd be down to a long sleeve t shirt and barefoot in the sand. At night we had rugular sleeping bags, no mummy style and no heat in the tent. All in all very comfortable.

Used to love going to Cape Constantine. Who did you get to drop you? It got harder and harder to get any of the air taxis to do a beach landing.

Scott,

I don't miss Alaska much but I admit that the wild coast on the Cape is a very special place. It would be easy to imagine that are the first white man to see it.

Were the Eiders flying along the surf line the King Eider variety.

Mark

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Scott,

I don't miss Alaska much but I admit that the wild coast on the Cape is a very special place. It would be easy to imagine that are the first white man to see it.

Were the Eiders flying along the surf line the King Eider variety.

Mark

The Cape is knowing exactly how many tie downs your tent has.

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Scott,

I don't miss Alaska much but I admit that the wild coast on the Cape is a very special place. It would be easy to imagine that are the first white man to see it.

Were the Eiders flying along the surf line the King Eider variety.

Mark

As I mentioned before, exceptional weather. Wild, yes. We saw caribou, the variety of different waterfowl, sea mammals, squirrels and plenty of washed up sealife. This year not so many starfish. The killer whales in the photo were chasing seals and two of them flopped thru the surf onto the beack in front of us, turned 180 degrees and sat watching the whales from the safety of the sand. I tried, but wasn't able to get a picture of the seal watching the whale all on the same frame.

Lots of dead and broken up small crabs. We saw some jellyfish and then an interesting sort, round like a baseball, that appeared to have a harder skin and a jelly inside. I don't know about the eiders. Sea duck identification for me is poor, my books are stashed somewhere and I didn't get to take one.

There are several air taxi's providing trips to the beach, Bay Air is the one we use, Tikchik Air also oes out that way frequently as well as Bristol Bay Air.

I've seen the ocean current charts and although none of them ever led me to believe there'd be any Japanese tsunami debris out there I still sort of had my hopes up. There was none, or at least no more than usual.

Great pics...I look forward to your posts about this time every year


@Mark,
No those are Pacific Eiders.

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Originally posted by Scott King:
I've seen the ocean current charts and although none of them ever led me to believe there'd be any Japanese tsunami debris out there I still sort of had my hopes up. There was none, or at least no more than usual.

Interesting Scott. You would think so with all the Japanese glass floats that have been picked up there over the years.

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Originally posted by collector:
Great pics...I look forward to your posts about this time every year


@Mark,
No those are Pacific Eiders.

Yesterday morning was beautiful blue sky, gentle breeze, the light just right.

On the way to work there was a sandhill crane and a pair of green wing teal on a pond right along side the road, all in full breeding plumage.

Camera at home.

Thanks for the pictures and report.

Awesome photo of Babe, she looks happy as usual.

How does she react to the bush flights?

Babe seems to handle travel well. The bush flights are usually in the rear seat of the plane and I guess she thinks shes in the car. I would have thought a look out the window at the ground would be un nerving, but she never seems to be any more or less wound up before or after the flight.

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Babe seems to handle travel

How far out in the surf did she swim she could look a like like a seal to a killer whale.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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Babe seems to handle travel

How far out in the surf did she swim she could look a like like a seal to a killer whale.

Sorta thought of that and when we hunted the surf she almost never fully swam. The beach must have some kind of drop off beyond where she was retrieving that was deep enough for the whales. Just the last few paces to the downed bird would she fully swim.

I probably don't have to tell you that if I saw a fin in the water while hunting the beach the hunt would be over!