Thoughts, musings, and things learned in my final days in Chignik Bay... (pictures coming soon)
-The best way to keep bugs away is Alaskan perfume. The secret ingrediets are: Deet, gasoline, engine oil, dirt, all sorts of plant smells, sweat, more dirt, WD-40, whatever is leaking out of my rented 4 wheeler, andddd more dirt.
-You either have wind or bugs. Sometimes both, never neither.
-Sometimes the Penair gets confused as to where you are. I am in Chignik Bay not Chignik Lake. I will be angry if you go to pick me up in the wrong place.
-Don't try to leave a fishing village at the same time the fishing season ends. You won't be able to change your flight when you finish the job early.
-4 wheelers can go a lot of amazing places that you wouldn't think they can get to. They can run over all sorts of things like small trees. Unfortunately, they get high centered and the farings get ripped off them if you try to drive over too big of a tree.
-Just because the drillers want you to climb up a cliff of crumbling rock does not mean they will respect you any less if you don't.
-Just because someone warns you that a rock is falling does not mean you are in a position to move out of the way of said falling rock... luckily it was a small one.
-Stray dogs just will not leave you alone.
-If you look in the right places, there are fossilized things all over in the cliffs!! :D
-Some of them are so new that parts of the tree are still stuck to the rock it imprinted on.
-When the power goes out where we are staying, every electronic thing beeps constantly, for a long time....
-Walking along a deserted beach with my iphone playing music is almost like having my own real-life soundtrack.
-You can send 1000 pounds of dirt through the USPS. It only costs $300 too.
-Sometimes you get lucky and the plane that is "completely booked an full" had to skip a stop due to weather. You get to leave days earlier than you expected to.
-Just because your shipped goods are clearly marked "Anchorage" does not mean they will go there. Mine got shipped into the hub city, and then back out to western Alaska, specifically, Perryville. I got a call from a very confused pilot.
Annddd the end! Happy to be home again!! Getting ready to leave for Kodiak soon!
