Day 10

We went out to the mouth of the Kasilof to fish for halibut yesterday. I got Cliff's truck stuck in the sand with the tide coming in. That was exciting. There was a guy with a chain ready to pull us out if needed, but we got it out ourselves. No halibut, but at least it wasn't boring!

We're going to get some halibut though. Paul found somebody to take us halibut fishing out of Homer for a full day for a pretty good price (just a tip!). He also found somebody to take us down the Kenai for a fishing trip. We'll probably limit out there. Most people are getting their fill in just a few hours. We're going to get some smoked salmon from Paul as well. He's smoking 100 pounds or so right now and is going to share a bit with us.

Last night there was a big moose out by the privy. It was busy eating and really didn't care about us. We tried to get a picture but it was pretty dark outside.

The pump finally arrived today. Turns out it took a side trip to Homer, but it's finally here.

We went up to Colorado Creek today and took the pump back to Joe. Some guy from Homer was up at Colorado Creek about 3 weeks ago. He found a racing bike in a hole under a tarp, which was odd. He also found some rib bones, but nobody is sure what they were from.

We stopped by Crescent Creek today too. Joe was up at Crescent Creek Friday night after Sarah and I left. He had three brown bears run across the road in front of him about 1/2 mile from where we had been. They were younger bears, but still probably 400 pounds each. Glad we didn't run in to them!

Joe decided not to take any money for the pump when we took it back. He showed us the gold he got from the black sand on the beach. The black sand is elusive though and you pretty much have to hunt for it every day. He let me fill up a pan with black sand too, so maybe I'll get some gold out of that. We'll keep looking for the black sand though.

Jeff saw a bear cub along the banks of the Russian River.

I'm trying to get the photos uploaded, but Facebook isn't cooperating. I called Sarah tonight and she helped me, so hopefully I'll get them uploaded tonight after we eat our fresh halibut, courtesy of our nice neighbors.

Tomorrow more fishing and searching for gold.