Back to normal....

So we are both back in nasty South Georgia! Heat index is 104!!! YUK! Everything is the same on Jekyll- as usual nothing really changes. Our yard was in good shape. My garden looks like a jungle. Killer is mad because she spent all summer outside. I have already put some time in at work. I get to teach physical science this year. BLAH! Good bye Alaska! Good bye Mattress Wharehouse man! Good bye bartender at Pioneer Bar! Good bye yummy potato skins at Rum Runners! Good bye baleen sellers! Good bye public intoxicants! Good bye high prices at the grocery store! Good bye Colbalt! Good bye animals! Good bye Pebble Mine! Good bye mountains! And good bye blog. This will be the last entry for alexanders in alaska. Until next summer.......

Muk Tuk Anyone?

My last day at work and got to experience something very few people ever have a chance too. I ATE A WHALE!! Well , A very small piece of one. There was a priest at the hospital and he had just been at the local native hospital. While there an Intuit family had given him some Muk Tuk. This is raw whale. he had both Beluga and Bow head. He told me the Bow head had been caught near Barrow earlier this spring. Of course I took the whale from Barrow. That means I probably ate Balee. I would have also taken some of the Beluga, but this stuff is really disgusting. Imagine grisly beef fat that tastes fishy. I almost got sick, but I`m still glad I got to do it. only native Alaskans are allowed to hunt whales, and then they are only allowed to take one or two per year. this was a really rare experience.
Well , I`m sitting in the Anchorage airport and my plane is delayed two hours, so I think I going to have a few drinks to make sure I sleep I the plane. I leave Anchorage at 10 PM and arrive in atlanta at 9 AM. I hope everone enjoyed the blog. We certainly enjoyed the trip. Nettie and I have not decieded if we are going to continue blogging, but I bet if we do it will not be as exciting. At least not untill next summer!
See you latter.

All Alone

Well , Nettie has left me here in Alaska to fend for myself. She took her cat and left. I went to the park by our apartment and got a picture of her plane leaving, and then I went out for a drink. When I got up the next day I realized that Nettie was not here and decieded to make the best of it. I drove to the one area we had been too that Aparently scared nettie so much she didn`t want to go back( narrow dirt roads with steep drop offs ), Hatcher Pass. I went to an old gold mining town and climbed up to an old gold mine.I then drove to the highest point I could get to via dirt roads in the cobalt, and climbed another mountain. Great view from 5000 feet, but I should have worn some warmer clothes and taken some rain gear. I spent well over an hour climbing straight up mostly on trail but sometimes scrambling over scree ( slippery broken pieces of rock ) to get to the next highest level. There was a beutifull valley about half way up that had a series of four stepped lakes feeding into each other before going over a cliff in a waterfall. It was incredible. There was nothing up there but me and some unidentifed animals about the size of a cat. when I got to the top I noticed some clouds moving in around me and that is when I started getting wet. The wind was blowing hard and apparently I had climbed higher than the lowest clouds and they were moving towards me. it was pretty cold because I was only wearing a tee shirt and windbreaker Thats what I get for climbing unprepared. I decieded to get down and get down fast! it took me less than half an hour to get back to the parkinglot. I could have gotten down much faster, but probably not in one piece. I then took some pictures of flowers and went home. What a fun day in Alaska.