TommyRadd wrote:
Yeah, sounds awesome! It’s just so beautiful up there!
In case anyone reading along is curious about combat fishing….
http://www.alaskafishingak.com/salmonfishing/combat_fishing.htmI always preferred quieter areas. I fished the mouth of Crooked Creek a lot. It was barely a rabbit trail to get to back then. Not anymore.
One of the main things I remember about being down on the beach at Clam Gulch were 3 large rocks out in the ocean. The rock on the left was tall, and looked sort of like a seated person sitting upright, the one in the middle was flat, resembling a table and the the one on the right looked like someone hunched over studying which chess piece to move next. I dubbed them the "Chess Game" but I'm sure lots of other people see other things than that.
Iliamna1 wrote:
One of the main things I remember about being down on the beach at Clam Gulch were 3 large rocks out in the ocean. The rock on the left was tall, and looked sort of like a seated person sitting upright, the one in the middle was flat, resembling a table and the the one on the right looked like someone hunched over studying which chess piece to move next. I dubbed them the "Chess Game" but I'm sure lots of other people see other things than that.
I lived at that campground for a bit before getting a job at Osmar’s Cannery. I was 18 and it was spring of 1975.
I remember (much later) a roughneck friend came down from Anchorage and made the mistake of driving his motor home onto that beach. It was a mess trying to get it out.
My wife and I bought the little cabin he and his buddies had built behind the Clam Shell Lodge. We ended up moving it to Cohoe Loop. My wife was pregnant at the time and wasn’t thrilled about seeing our little log cabin moving down the road. You know, that nesting instinct thing. Who knew!
I just remembered, there’s a really good book about life in Clam Gulch in the ‘70’s written by a friend (everyone who ever hung out at the Clam Shell Lodge were friends by default)…
“Clam Gulch: A Memoir” by Scott Ransom
https://www.amazon.com/Clam-Gulch-Memoir-Scott-Ransom/dp/0692002480/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FDCISICTJ3UZ&keywords=Clam+gulch+ransom&qid=1651972518&sprefix=clam+gulch+ransom%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1Here’s a book review:
https://redoubtreporter.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/almanac-memoir-navigates-deep-well-of-uncharted-waters-—-‘clam-gulch’-a-rollicking-peek-into-peninsula-fishing-life/I knew everyone in the book, but, no, I didn’t get a mention, but that’s okay. He tells the story very well! You’ll find out why he wrote it if you read it. I won’t steal his thunder. Seems such a lifetime ago. You won’t regret the read if you’re at all interested in life on the last frontier!
I love a good read and I just may buy it. 515 pages. I read a biography years ago about a teacher to the natives by Lake Iliamna. That was a great book. She was sad though, because there wasn't much interest in learning to read and write among those natives. As I recall they were Inuit. I'm part Cherokee (Oklahoma) and I have some cousins like that. Thankfully, my grandfather and several of his siblings were much more ambitious and one great uncle was a physicist and actually worked with Einstein and Rutherford at White Sands on the first nuclear bomb. My family has those who are very educated, mostly hospital administrators, nurses and a few doctors, and then there's a large contingency of first cousins in and around Ada, Oklahoma, who do nothing except have babies.
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Good movie... Two of my favorite actors...
I don't think I have a bucket list...
Although there are people I'd like to see again...
There are things I'd like to "redo", too, and I'm learning how silly I've been....but I can either laugh at myself or try to take myself seriously .... the former feels better and is more fun! 😉
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