Bear!

I am living on an island with roughly 3500 bears, that means about 1 bear per square mile. You would think I would have seen one by now. It's not like they are small critters. Well, I finally saw one! There is a male juvenile bear hanging out and fishing right down the road from where I live and I caught him playing around in the river last week. I got this shot of him coming toward me up the river.

shipwreck

This is the before (1949) and after (2009) pictures of a shipwreck down on the VFW beach in Monashka Bay. It was an iron ship called The Santiago and was built in 1885 in Scotland. Apparently it was a record-breaking fast schooner that later turned into an oil barge that was used here by the Navy during WWII. It was beached in 1941 because of a leak in its hull.

sparklers are fun

Chad took this picture out at Pasagshak on the 4th of July. We all camped out there for the night.