Snapping Ray Troll T-shirts

Stopped by Snug Harbor Seafoods today to pick up my smoked silver salmon and got carried away snapping pictures of the Ray Troll T-shirts. Every one of them is fantastic! Very good point.

Kind of out there.

The ugly truth.

Good book.

Fast fish!

Awwww.

Brilliant!

My favorite.

Fish Earrings

I picked these out. I don't have peirced ears but a friend who does would also like these. With Christmas coming soon I've got to get busy shopping. I don't have any of my canned salmon left to give away as presents this year. Hopefully that will change next year!

Mile 69 Fish Bus (Burger)

Next time you are heading down the George Parks Highway stop at Mile 69 Willow, Alaska. The speed limit slows down to 45 mph anyway.

Check out Debbie's expanded Burger Bus serving Bad Ass Coffee and an array of delicacies.

While you are there snap a picture of the Northern Lights. They are ON all the time!

I did!

Ocean Taxi

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Fish Kabob

Don't these fish look good enough to eat.

Thank-you Phyliss! Hope you make it back to Alaska soon.

ALBERTS Fish Kabob~ made in china

Oyster Scenes

The oyster shell on the left is reminisent of a Valdez waterfall. One of the shells of the 16 PWS oysters I ate. The shell on the right holds a Kenai River fishing scene. Both shells painted and signed by Becky.

Oyster Beer

All summer long I've been driving past Snug Harbor Seafoods on Kalifornsky Beach Road seeing the sign "fresh oysters for sale".

The pretty painted oyster shell was done by Becky. Its not from this group of shells. Its there for picture purpose only.

Nuke 3 at a time for a minute. Just enough for them to open. With a butter knife pop the shell and cut the top muscle. Let the oyster wallow in the bottom shell's juice with a squeeze of lemon. Slurp and swallow. Chase with a beer.

Fish Art

Paul DeAngelo of www.DeAngeloFishArt.com stopped by the lodge today to check out Jimmie's mounts.

He's been going around to Alaska lodges collecting fish skins to mount at his shops in Oregon.

Kenai Kings are very popular at Sportsmen shows.

This is the last week of Kenai King fishing. It closes on Friday the 31st. Its been a fast 2 months of working every day. Then theres a low the first 10 days of August til the Silvers start running. I am looking forward to the break. I'll be going to Wasilla and picking up my stuff out of storage and storing it here as I will be back to this lodge next year.

Loud Plugs

Colorful and aromic (herring tied on) plugs used as bait for king fishing look pretty all lined up and ready to go.

Fish Stepping Stone

Edited to add all the stepping stones in the walkway.

Fish Bread

Please pass the butter.

Red Salmon Cookie

From the Moose is Loose bakery in Soldotna, Alaska.

Good enough to eat!

Behold the Fisherman!

Behold the fisherman!

He riseth early in the morning

and disturbeth the whole household.

Mighty are his prospects.

He goeth forth full of hope and when the day

Is far spent he retrurneth --- smelling of

Strong drink; and the truth is not in him.

~Author Unknown

Fish Art

Photos: 2009 edition of Wild Salmon on Parade

fishgirl

Sadly, this isn't my truck.

Fish Pond One

Becky's Fish Pond

Releasing the 3 yo goldfish who spend the winter inside in the pool.

This will be fun to watch all summer.

Charlie on TV

Charlie is my friend Becky's parrot, whom I'm staying with on the Kenai, until my job starts. She's an artist who painted murals on her walls as you can see in the pictures. Charlie is on the TV while we were watching Mama Mia. If you look close at the picture on the left you will see goldfish swimming in the baby pool. She puts the pool outside in summer which is coming soon!

Here is the results of the Coin Toss post. $122.96 in change in the baby bottle. 219 Quarters. 454 Dimes. 221 Nickles. 1176 Pennies. $10.94 charge for the counting.

Troll Art

Thank-you DeeDee, from the Gig Harbor Scene blog, for pointing out Ray Troll's art (on the menu cover at Humpy's). See more at Trollart: About Ray Troll.

First Place Fish

By FishTaxi

I thought this was funny. It says its by FishTaxi but that is only me hosting it on ImageShack to get the movement.

Niki's miniWerks

Along with The Alaskan Trailer, Niki's miniWerks in Kenny Lake, shows many Alaskan scenes. Like the Chitina Fishwheel Scene pictured below.

Niki's miniWerks is housed in a 20ft Gertee which also serves as The Alaskan HOMESTEADER Museum, office and her workshop.

Camp Redington officially opens August 1, 2008. The Museum is ready for visitors. Inside the 20 foot model gertee at the entrance to the campground, it now has a wolly mammoth thigh and shoulder bone, traps, fossilized King Salmon skulls, carved ivory, Eskimo dolls, Iditarod momentos from the Redington family collection, homesteader pictures, an Alpine memorial, and more. Friendly visitors may be invited to visit the "real" museum (which is actually Tim's whole house). Come see our Alaskan miniature displays of traditional Alaskan lifestyles. Please contact Niki if you would like to lend your pictures, memories of Alaskans passed on, or AK collectibles for display during the summer season.

This is a "to scale" miniature of Niki's dream 20 foot gertee.

She also made the cutting board, tables and chairs. What a talented, creative artist/architect my sister is. I am very proud of her.

Stop in and check it out for yourself at CampRedington.com.