Summer at last!

Summer took forever to arrive this year. The cold spring waether hung around a long time but there were still lots of fun things to do. Here were a few spring outings I captured on camera.

    Corrine hiding from the turkeys...and the camera.  

Paying respect to a nice tom that drummed into our decoys

 

Hunter's harvest after an intense 20 minute standoff.

Playing in the mud looking for big empire clams

The diggin' crew after a full limit

Becoming aquainted with her barbie fish stick, she loves that thing

Hunter and I went to shoot bows and rifles. I shot my bow while he wandered off. I worried for a moment as I realized my baby boy had explored up a canyon and I didn't know where he was at. I waited a good hour before I spotted him coming off a hill with his .22. This was his first time leaving my side and exploring some local hills by himself with his rifle, definitely one of the highlights of my spring.

Tuna, venison, and trout, it's what's for dinner

Tracking bear dogs (which are tracking a bear) in the coastal forests

...still tracking

This is a different day, different bear...and one of the more tense encounters

We fished high country brook trout quite a bit this spring with lots of luck

...and brown trout

Trapper has fished the coast his entire life with lots of luck, but this was his first ever brown trout

                                        This quick learner made oaring a pontton look like a breeze!

Corrine's friend, Jasmine, caught her first fish (a tasty brook trout) while on a camping trip a couple weeks back. After her first catch, she was so excited about fishing, when the fish started jumping she was the first to grab a fishing rod and hit the lake.

I'm sure Emily is going to update her blog someday and include more family outing pics...and with these pictures, I say so long spring and Hellll-ooooooo summer!