A week in Chignik

A tufted puffin with a beak full of candle-fish	The view from the back deck .. real Alaskan wilderness	Inside the lodge	The weir on the Chignik
John and Denise holding one of the silvers	Thumbs up for the fishing	Steve with another silver	The guide in the rain while we were dry
Fish in the wheel barrow	Most of the days catch of silvers	Berniece and Kevo	Steve and Berniece and Kevo
John and Berniece and Kevo	Steve showing how much he enjoyed the day	Steve and another silver	A duck
Several ducks	A horned puffin beating a hasty escape	ditto	A bunch of seagulls lifting off of a bait-ball
A horned puffin	Picking salmon berries in the hills above Chignik	WOW .. Berniece making salmon-berry jelly???	Castle Cape
Big John with a baradei crab	6 fresh bairdi crabs .... AKA .... DINNER ... poor crabs	a whale tail	another whale tail
a flock of birds above a bait ball	a tufted puffin	a killer whale tail	a killer whale fin against Castle Cape
a whale head	a sculpin	a rock fish	can't remember
Big John about to gaff Denise's halibut	The halibut escaped the first gaff attempt	but not the next one	the orca's came up about 10 feet from the boat one time
Denise with her big halibut	Birthday dinner for Denise	Birthday cake	A couple of eagles
an immature eagle	a pair of marble murrelets	a pair of happy fisherwomen	Steve with his monster king salmon
Denise and I with the days catch	View from the lot on the hill	View from the lot on the hill	View from the lot on the hill
Fork-tailed storm petrel (?) about to dive	Storm petrel in eagle's talons after it surfaced