"Where the h@ll is everyone?!" --Justin Stewart
After breakfast this morning, we piled into the skiffs and cruised out of Carry Inlet to today's beach. We split into three teams and worked until noon, and we collected about two dozen garbage bags and filled four supersacks. Jasmine found her souvenir for the trip -- a glass float! -- and we found even more commercial fishing gear. We managed to pack all the garbage and the twelve of us (our engineer, Harry, worked, too) into the skiffs, and we returned to the Island C.
Upon our return to the ship, we met two kayakers who paddled over to the boat. They were visiting Shuyak from Anchorage, and we invited them to share our soup and sandwiches for lunch. After lunch, we again split into a hiking group and a kayaking group. The paddlers visited a white sand beach and saw a harbor seal with two pups; the hikers made their way through the spruce forest and along the beach, where they saw two jellyfish washed up onshore. The hikers also made VHF contact with the park ranger station, and the rangers are expecting our arrival tomorrow. Hopefully they'll help us get a quick message to our families.
Andy gave tonight's evening presentation, and he offered information about the mammals of the Archipelago. By now, we've seen several of these mammals, so it was informative to have some more information about them. At the end of the evening, Harry returned from an hours-long fishing voyage, and he arrived with three more large halibut. He and Jasmine filleted them on the back deck -- it looks like there will be more good eating for the rest of the week! Click below for today's photos.
The moss and the sunset -- wow! Can you bring some of that halibut home???
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