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Wild Alaska: Linn and Larry live in Tongass National Forest working an oyster farm. Their home is a cedar cabin built on an old logging camp raft anchored in Kahli Cove. They rock with the winds mere inches from the Pacific Ocean. Dinner is just a pull of a crab or shrimp pot or a fishing pole away. It can also include hand-raised oysters, clams, scallops, or sea cukes. They forage for spring fernheads and sea asparagus, summer berries, and fall mushrooms. When you learn where to look, the sea provides. It also entertains and inspires. The couple work shellfish nets by the tides often going out on beaches to tend lines at dawn or dark. They go places where wild animals are unexposed to, and unafraid of, human contact. Otter and mink run on the float. Deer and bear frequent areas around the cove. Heron, Eagles, Raven, and Kingfishers can be lured in with fish scraps. Linn has been nose to snout with a Sea Lion over an oyster bag! Many a day is spent watching Humpback Whale bubble feed and breach, Orca packs hunt, and seal and Sea Otter play in the waters around the farm. Larry knows most of the rocks that make up the islands and makes it his goal to photo each sunset or rainbow .

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