There are a few things that ever individual needs to do while they are in Alaska. One, skinny dip in the Pacific. Two, Eat as much seafood as you can. Three, go climb onto a glacier. Four, see a bear. And five, go salmon and halibut fishing. Well, I have gone salmon fishing. Great fun it was actually. The salmon have arrived here in the fresh water streams. It's just like all the documentaries show, they are in like 2 inches of water splashing and swimming, just trying to get upstream to harvest their eggs (I haven't yet seen them jump up a waterfall-but I will). Well this week I was out walking and talking on my phone when I decided to go walk my jogging trail. It's a nice little trail with wild blue and salmon berries all over and frequent bear sitings, a cool mountain stream and a quaint little bridge and rope swing. Well, I was walking and saw the salmon on their trek up stream. I got so close to them that I could have reached my hand out and grabbed five of them. Two problems with that-number one....GROSS! I hate touching fish, and number two, I was alone without a camera and I felt like I needed a witness to this great event. So, I went home grabbed Whitney out of bed and made her come with me and video tape the whole thing. Of course, she's Whitney and had to pretend to be the crocodile hunter. I was known on the video as Rebecca the Huntress. So, here are a few moments of the glorious, yet typical Rebecca/Whitney outing here in Alaska. I do want to remind everyone that yes, I did catch and touch a salmon with my bare hands!

The first video is how I was actually able to catch the salmon, the second is me triumphantly collecting my prize.