"Our Alaska Dream"

These pics don't do it justice. It is truly an amazing place. My son and I had a dream come true last week and we will never, ever, ever forget it. These are some of the 900+ images that we took. We're still going through them all. In the next week or two we're going to put together a video of it all to put it all together.


He and I shared some great and special moments together. I'll never forget it.

Hope I don't bore ya's with these.







































































Spent some time "beading" for rainbows. Absolutely amazing colors to them. This one was feeding right behind a King and burped up some of the eggs she was feeding on.

Nice... Looks like you guys had a blast............

The Colors on that Bow are Awesome

great pics & glad you had a great trip hope to talk to you more at the one fly it looks like my group is going back again next year & I am looking forward to start booking everthing now, man those pics sure get thing stired up in my mind. sure glad your trip GREAT

Wow! and trust me... no one will be 'bored' with these pics!!!

EnCORE! EnCORE! EnCORE!!!

Very happy for you and your son, Steely. Looks like a little bit of Heaven here on Earth.

looks like a great time. love the pics. thanks for sharing and will be waiting for more pics. ~DT

Fantastic.  Simply Fantastic.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
Looking forward to more.

Some day, I will go too. Some day.

Thanks for posting, great stuff.

Great pictures and yes Alaska is a real adventure that never ends. Several weeks up there wasn’t even a start. Can’t wait to get back up there. I know getting 900+ pictures was real easy. Glad you and your son got the experience, hope others here get the chance. And yeah more pictures please.

WOW!!!! Thanks for sharing. Bring on more

ORIGINAL: steely34

Well if this doesn't stink!!!!! I was working on the pics and videos on our 9 year old desktop computer and it just crashed. Cannot get it running at all. Thankfully I did not delete any of the images on the cameras. So I guess we'll be getting a new 'puter this weekend. Like I said though, thank the Lord I didn't delete any of the images. And my son saved his on his Mac which I'm on now. If I'd have lost this pics.......... well I don't know what I would have done....

Just would have called for an immediate return trip!! Looking forward to more photos when you have time
Guess the old computer just couldn't take all the stuff I threw at it. Should have known better I guess.

Good stuff, looking forward to hearing about your adventure at the One Fly
 

Finally got to go over some of the pics we took. Still using my son's Mac - the old desktop is shot. Here's some more of our travels. I love going over these and going back..... especially after this past week. Still kind of hard to adjust to this world after being there.......


Bings - I know your good with a chainsaw but this guy was amazing!!!!!








Halibut Hook...




The controls of the Dehavilland Otter we flew out on:













Close to $7,000 worth of supplies for the winter caretaker (of which my son had an interview for... they said they would call him if the guy who they had backed out. From late Oct. till mid March...... your only young once!! Mom doesn't like the idea much, me - I'm all for it!)





A guides life:




Death of the Kings:










Some other pics:

From an Aussi who has just returned from a month in Alaska

Alaska was amazing and the photos do not even go close to doing it justice we took some 2000 plus photos and still remain in awe at how truly stunning and amazing the scenery, bears, fish and fishing but let me be truthful - it wasn't fishing it was catching, salmon - well you do not truly "fish" for them anyway, most salmon fishing on the "named" rivers (Kenai, Russian and Kasilof) is truly combat "fishing" - actually snagging really and even fishing for specimen rainbows uses a snagging (beading) technique

The Wildman Lake Lodge trip was a real eye opener, no combat fishing there - just me, a specialist guide, Peter who had more patience than the proverbial Jobe, and 15 miles of crystal clear spring fed river all to myself. Hooked a dolly varden first pathetic attempt to cast a weighted purple egg sucking leech directly behind spawning sockeye salmon, caught salmon (actually snagged them in the mouth) with only two actually attacking the fly - a red and a silver all sight fished to. Huge rainbows and some of the most enjoyable fishing using my guide's personal 2 weight dry fly rod to rising fish, char, rainbows and dollies ............really exciting and on light tippets truly proper fishing but still caught 46 fish in a day and lost double that in unstoppables.

As for the Alaskan people - generous, friendly and a true CREDIT to America - thank you Alaska.org and all of the people we met for a unforgettable trip of a lifetime - take care of that unspoilt resource as, whilst coming from one of the remotest parts of Australia I can say that it is a trip every single person fisherman / fisherwoman or just nature lover should make once in thier life.

Seadragon - Perth West Australia