08.03.2004 Update!

• Bob had another chicken cook-out at Eagle Beach. My uncle Barney made a wonderful rice pilaf, in addition to the chicken, wurst, salmon, bread, and other goodies:
  
• Yarr! Avast matey, give me yer booty! Justin and Peter parrying:
  
• So I went over to Jeffy's house this Wednesday to sleep over the day before I was going to climb Mount McGinnis with him. He presented me with a "Jeffy Problem": Either help me out or get out of my way because I have lots of work to do. He had just bought 10 Sockeye Salmon and 5 Silver Salmon and needed to process them. So over about 4 hours we prepared them. Jeffy would cut the fillets from the fish, and I took out the rib bones and packaged the fish in FoodSaver bags (all the air is sucked out - you might have seen the infomercials on TV for these devices.) Here is a picture of the tub of fish in the middle of work:
  
• Here is Jeffy filleting:
  
• Here I am carefully cutting out the rib bones:
  
• Unfortunately we only made it half way up McGinnis because we got completely rained out. However I was able to get some nice pictures of the glacier:
  
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• This picture is a little misleading because the light blue is actually the glacier. We went under the glacier into a large 40 ft high cavern. Rick and Peter are facing the camera from a small little nitch:
  
• Unfortunately my camera got completely soaked so I had to open it up and let it dry over the weekend - so I wasn't able to take any good pictures of grog fest. Grog fest is a yearly weekend kegger party on Indian Cove Island that Rick Busch and his wife Theresa host. A 1 meter cubed pile of wood is made, that is interlaced with rocks. The fire is lit, and when it burns down hot rocks remain. Seaweed is piled onto the rocks; then 60 lbs of food: Salmon, Crab, Oysters, Prawns, Corn, Potatoes, Carrots, Onions, garlic, Squash, etc; then another layer of seaweed, then a bucket of saltwater, and finally a large tarp over everything. After about an hour of steaming a magnificient buffet is ready!
  Here is the one single picture I got of grogfest. This years addition was a triathalon. 1/4 mile swim, 12 mile bike, and 4 mile run. Here is Rick peddling towards the finish line:
  
• Unfortunately the sliding door of my house (van) came of last night. Luckily I got Jeffy to come by and assist me in putting it back on:
  

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