(9) more activities

This is what I call REAL BLUE!!This is the view up the lagoon with part of Mt Dutton,the sleeping volcano that has snow on it.

Hard working on removing part of the carpet where we installed vinyl in my parent's house.

Laying the red carpet.

Wonderful new playground for the great grandkids. :)

(8) Leaving King Cove August 2008

Here is the view that I had while sitting up front of the aircraft with the very young pilot. As you can see, the weather looks great! I had a chance to go on the hovercraft which goes by water but I thought that I would get this short trip done with quickly so I flew since I already had the ticket for flying. Little did we know what we were in for. My sister, Bonnie and her youngest son were the only other people on the flight.

As you can see, the weather was closing in on us quickly!

The road in the photo is the road to take to the hovercraft landing, which is about 10 miles out of town.

(7) more of leaving KC

This is when the prayers were heading upwards for a safe landing in Cold Bay. Obviously, it wasn't a safe ordeal because our pilot had to circle a number of times to wait for the fog to lighten up. I don't think that it did clear up-he just had to make a judgment call and it happened to be a good call. I plan to make a post on my blog for the case for a road from King Cove to Cold Bay. I will refrain from any comments at this moment and will post after I get my whole trip on my blog.

This is what we were heading into-not the best visibility and pretty scary for passengers.

(6) more again

Here is a road out in the middle of nowhere, where I thought that we could possibly land if the fog didn't clear up to make it to Cold Bay to land. The major problem with having to land out there was the fear of a grizzly bear coming upon us and having a meal of us. This area is infested with brown grizzly bears . It is also home to millions of birds. Hunters from all over the world come here to hunt for bears and ducks.

Looking more dismal all the time! (any lower and I think we would of been swimming)

(5) Arrival in Cold Bay

Not a good looking place to land.YEAH!! We finally see the runway and hope of landing safely!

I'm a total believer in the power of prayer and I can say that I did a fair amount of praying during this long drawn out flight. Prayer is a wonderful thing. I could feel the presence of God and had total peace in whatever might happen. My greatest fear was that we would have to land out in the middle of nowhere and have bears find us. (and you can only imagine what could happen then) I don't know about you, but I don't want a repeat of this sort of flight again.

(4) Salmon berries GALORE!!

Here is a close up of a salmonberry-it makes the most tastiest jelly you will ever taste.Two eager berry pickers!! We found a wonderful patch of berries right in town and had to get out to pick them before anyone else got the chance!! I think we have a good chance of getting a contract to model boots!!

Shirlee couldn't wait to fill her pitcher full.

I just didn't care about style when it came to getting a load of berries!

Shirlee struck it rich!!