and you thought I was stuttering! The sentiment fits what I saw today.

Took a lunchtime drive today . . . Mt. Redoubt was putting out some steam and the skies blued up so I hoped for some good shots. Not as good as I’d hoped, but still fun.

This is a great place to pull off the road and grab a shot – it’s atop the bluff over a beach site. (set-netting salmon site).

Spotted some boats out on the water – didn’t think it was a commercial drift fishing day . . . but apparently I was wrong. So, after work I drove to the top of the bluff near Olde Towne and checked out the scenery.

Some of the fleet coming home on the low tide: (click for larger)

The last shot shows a telling sign . . . Dangerous bluff. We used to be able to drive along the bluff – back in the late 70s. Then chunks of the bluff started to fall down towards the water – and soon chunks of the road went with it. Now houses and a church that used to sit several hundred feet back from the edge of the bluff have a ringside seat.

These last two shots are just for fun:

The picture on the left is blurry, but I wanted to show you what some of the dipnetters will do . . . they don wetsuits and then FLOAT on the tide – brrrrrr – and silly, too. Would be pretty hard to get a fish in to shore if they got one while floating.

7-22: Footnote on the above picture: Man disappears in Kenai. This happened earlier in the day – same day as I took the pictures. Body has not yet been found. Sad. (the man floating in my picture is NOT the missing person)

The picture on the right shows an abandoned dipnet. The plastic jug helps the handle float, I’m guessing.

So, I smell all smokey from the beach fires – and I was way up above them. The mixture of the smoke, fish, and salt air . . . ahhhh summer in Kenai.