valdez sept 1

Up at 5:15
Breakfast egg sausage muffin at potato.
7:00 on the boat.
Back at 4:30 pm. Lots of fun in between with YuRose, Dave, Dylan, and Bill the guide. Montana people, son lives in Fairbanks now, works as plumber for contractor for military buildings there.
Red beer.
Spiced rum and coke
Pineapple cider
Peed in bucket in cockpit while YuRose was driving the boat. Tossed it overboard when done.
24 silver salmon
Cloudy rain6 foggy wonderful day,
Dinner at best western hotel restaurant. Food okay/meh.
Back to hotel early.
I will sleep well tonight.
Bill the guide has been to Attu and the other one. Knows birder guide with the bikes.
Says some guy in Indiana buys the houses that were given by feds to Alaska on the other island from Alaska, rents out to hunters, and rents pickups and atvs. Now military ramping up presence and renting from the guy the buildings they put there on the land 5hey gave away. Putting in some kind of submarine surveillance base to watch fir Russian subs.
Best quote of the day, "I'm trying to outsmart the fish. I've got boogers bigger than their brains."