Friday, May 28, 2010

The Big Holiday


Memorial Day Weekend is Alaskan bust out time and campground host work time. This is the big weekend of the summer. After a long dark winter folks are ready to be outside and recreate, especially when the King Salmon season starts here late tonight on Deep Creek, and we have a series of extra low tides so folks can dig for those sweet-eating clams. We're packing folks in cheek to jowl, and their boats, and their generators, and their beer coolers,and their RV's, and their ... well you get the idea. Sunset is at 11 PM now, and we see an after-glow in the northern sky all night long, so people are out and about almost any time. We managed to get most folks parked in the right formation to squeeze as many onto the "beach front property" as possible. This year we're getting lots of support from our Park Rangers, State Troopers, and the local fire brigade. We've even been given niftry, neato new radios. So for the next 48 hours we just keep the toilet paper stocked, restrooms as clean as possible, dogs on tethers, and watch the pageant unfold. King Salmon fishing report next time.

 Before memorial Day Weekend.

During.

During II.

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