We just spent a couple of marvelous days with Don & Vanessa
at their wilderness cabin near North Pole.
We traveled down rivers and up the creek to the cabin
which gives 'in the boondocks' and entirely new meaning!
Don is a Master-boater!
You should see him zoom around dead falls and sandbars, going full speed...
doesn't ever break a sweat.
It's combination Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and Disney's Jungle cruise!
The cabin is about 45 minute by boat...at 20+ miles an hour...and he's done this run, oh, maybe a thousand times! Every bit of his cabin...furniture, nails, roof, wood...everything...has been ferried by boat.It's isolated, quiet, surrounded by trees, blueberries and mushrooms...and moose.
During hunting season he just sits on his front porch, toddy in hand, gun at the ready, and waits for a prime bull to wander by. Those bulls have wandered too close every year and Don's freezer is stuffed with moose sausage, moose roasts, moose burgers...I snagged some sausage!
His river boat sits right at the foot of the cabin. How's this for a front yard view?
His river boat sits right at the foot of the cabin. How's this for a front yard view?
The decor is strictly wild Alaska...Moose skulls, complete with teeth!
We spent a great first day with Don & Vanessa serving us a gourmet salmon dinner. They forced me to drink too much wine but that is a tale for another time!
We spent a great first day with Don & Vanessa serving us a gourmet salmon dinner. They forced me to drink too much wine but that is a tale for another time!The next day, on our way back to civilization,
we stopped to pick more wild blueberries and fish for grayling.
Of course Don showed us how it was done.
So I did it too.
Then we had a moose sausage sandwich break...
And he caught another.
Of course Don showed us how it was done.So I did it too.Then we had a moose sausage sandwich break...And he caught another.I stopped taking his picture after grayling number 5....
The show-off!
This is Jim's perplexed look...no fish for him!
The show-off!
This is Jim's perplexed look...no fish for him!
4 comments:
Sue, what a great little photo-journal report. It reminds me of our visit there just 2 years ago this month (and September). We made that Jungle Safari ride with them twice, or maybe three times, I don't remember. We stayed in that cabin for about a week on two separate occasions, one being the successful Moose Hunt with two of Don's guests from Grand Junction, CO. There were six of us bunking in that cabin, what fun... It was a GREAT trip!
Don has to go fast in that creek to make the boat "plane" at all times, because it's so shallow. As I rode, I could imagine standing up behind the windshield with a camcorder to make a video of all those banking turns around the sharp bends in the creek.
Oh, did you get to ride in the Argo? I did not, but Mary did. You'll have to hear her story about THAT little adventure!
You have said that Don is a Master Boater, and that's certainly true. Now, with all that fishing expertise to boot, wouldn't you have to say he's also a Master Baiter? ;-)
Dave, I wouldn't say it (but I did hint at it, didn't I?) but I'm glad you did!
What a great experience! Don & V are so generous with their time, expertise and fish...let's not for get the fish!
Sue, I'm sure you're right about Don & Vanessa's generosity. I think it's why they live a life of such great abundance: "The more you give, the more you receive." They are living proof of that!
We're really looking forward to seeing them again.
:-)
We all know he is a good master baiter. only if he could cook
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