Cousin Time in Ninilchik

We had so much fun last weekend at Pat and Mert's house that we decided to stop by again for another visit and to see Guy again while he was down from Palmer fishing. Friday was a rainy nasty day and we drove from Cooper Landing to Ninilchik. Not a long drive and we didn't leave too early because of the drizzly rain. We arrived mid afternoon and Pat, Guy and Jane ( a visiting friend from Seattle) were preparing to head out for some night fishing . . . keeping in mind that nighttime is only a relative term to refer to the time of day not the amount of daylight. They left around 5:30 and then Mert, Al and I went to the local pizza place for some dinner. We returned to watch a baseball game and have a nice fire in the wood stove before bedtime. Sometime in the night the fisher people returned with more salmon which would need to be prepared for shipment back to Seattle. Overall Pat thought that they had prepared about 100 lbs of fresh caught salmon.

Driveway camping at Camp Wells

Guy preparing fillets from roughly cleaned slabs (the guts and bones are already removed)

Fillets ready for Saran wrap and then the freezer                                                               

                                                    Frozen fillets being vacuum sealed 

Mert,, Pat,Me and Guy

One more with Al . . . Thanks Jane!

Cousin Love

On to Homer for the rest of the weekend . . . a couple of breweries, maybe Alaskan Crab and sightseeing