Spring sea ice is a pretty interesting thing! As I write, the sea ice is 4.5 miles out from the beach. The sea ice is 3.5 feet thick. I know this as one of our students was out the other night with his dad setting a crab pot. They drove out onto the ice on their snowmachine with a sled. The sled is a large plastic workhorse used for hauling firewood, caribou, crab pots, and gear. Arctic used a chain saw to cut a huge hole to set their crab pot and thus the report on the sea ice.
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| Last week, one of our ski families dropped off two brown king crabs for us as a thank you! This is a normal thing out here to give thanks with food from the land. Always answer the door here! More time than not, there is food: crab, salmon, trout, moose, or caribou waiting for us! |
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| Brown king crab on the smaller size but so yummy no matter what! |
After school today I dashed down to the beach for the dogs to do the dog thing. Here are just a few photos of the beach and sea ice. The water on top of the ice is just that overflow being pushed up along the edge and through the cracks. I hope these photos give a feel for the magnitude of the sea ice across North Sound.
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| Looking north towards Blueberry Hills |
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| Sea ice as far as you can see |
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| Looking north |
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| Snow and Ice on the beach |
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| Looking northwest |
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| Looking southeast across the mouth of the river. |
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| The beach and sea ice about 50 yards from our front door. |
1 comment:
A friend living in Ontario was gifted packages of moose when she retired. I go as far as pots of blackcurrant jam, made with currants from my allotment.
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