First posting on Living in Wild Alaska...

Here it goes, our first posting on Wild Alaska.  I hope to tell you about our lovely 35th wedding anniversary camp out on shore and get some pictures posted.  I hope all of you dear friends and family and friends of friends can follow us here.

It was a cold, rainy, and windy Monday.  The nearby (relatively - 65 mi. on logging roads) town of Thorne Bay is trying something new.  A current trend in cruise shipping are the eco tourists - small, only 30 - 40 passengers at a time hitting the smaller, less traveled spots.  Some anchored up in our cove last summer and let out kayakers to adventure.  So this one is stopping to a walking tour of the old logging town of TB and we locals are setting up craft booths to f lease them.  That is, give them an opportunity to buy authentic, Alaskan crafts made by us not imported.  I have my bear skinned blankets and fishy potholders.  Lar made the cutest tree stand for them.

Since May 21 was Beret & Erin;s first wedding anniversary and our 35th, we decided to stay on land and for a change of pace, go camping!  You know, camping, cooking over a wood fire, carrying water, a real change up from our normal life.

The spot we go to is on a lovely point overlooking an extremely rocky beach.  It is a cove just past TB so it collects logs that escape the mills.  TB gets the 15 - 25 ft. tides so combine wind and waves with logs and rocks and it gets some awesome driftwood sculptures.  Larry and I spent two early mornings at low tide exploring.  We took mainly photos but did some beach combing too.  The shells are just not the same here.

I got a little wild climbing on the kelp covered rocks.  I thought I saw an elusive giant red sea urchin in a cravass at low tide and just had to climb down to get it.  I slipped and severely bruised my tush.  I had visions of being stuck there in the rocks while the tide rushed in - not a nice vision.  I may have learned something.  I was saved by my great new Keen hiking boots and my walking staff.  Don't be without them.

The red sea urchin is still elusive.  This sighting was just a colorful anemone all tucked into itself.
We found a few more fiddlehead fern but around here when everyone is the earthy, sustenance type, the ferns were picked over.

The bear were staying in out of the rain - no sightings, but I did catch a glimpse of a Bigfoot (more on that later).