#alaska*

[taavisplushies]

Had a really bad day, still having a really bad day. At least Alaska is here to distract me :)

[flyingrttakespictures]

Anchorage, Alaska

November 2024

[refinestein]

I don’t know who took this pic, or owns this plane but they’re both great.

[oldmanpeace]

Anchorage, Alaska.

[wolfcomix]

Jelly cycle, gamblin ink on kitakata paper, hand pressed

[sea-salted-wolverine]

So there are some perks to living in a tourist destination. There are a lot of detractors mostly that you cannot shoot the tourists because you rely on them for your income but you have a semi captive audience with no context for any of the bullshit you spew. You can tell these people anything and they will believe you, the trusted friendly local. Now this is a very much Spider-Man situation where Great Power begets Great Audacity and even worse Responsibility.

My buddy goes on a run and when hes done there is a bar near a creek. So he wades into the creek because the day is hot and the water is cold.

Tourists ask what hes up to, with his running stuff he didn't want wet piled on the shore and him very obviously cooling off in the water. He says he's fishing.

But now here is why I am telling you this story. The universe occasionally aligns in such a way that we get to really really fuck with people and their perception of said universe. The opportunities do not come often and when they come you must seize the day. This is what my buddy did.

So this Creek runs through town and as a result of the highway and neighborhoods and culverts and roads it does not have a great salmon run. It's a short Creek the headwaters are only a few miles from the ocean it never had a great salmon run to begin with. But there are salmon.

One such fish brushes past my buddy's leg. Immediately he knees the fish like he is juggling a soccer ball and pops it out of the water, then slaps it out of the air on to the shore.

This is dumb luck. He could not do this again if he spent years training. Noodling (catching fish with your hands) is a thing that is legal to do with salmon but it is so much harder than literally every other way to catch salmon, including grabbing them with a garbage can. What he just managed is the kind of thing that should make you want to grab the fish and swing it around your head like a stripper with her panties off.

But,

He has an audience.

This is the opportunity offered by the universe.

He plays it cool.

He puts on dead pan straight face on and wades up to shore to grab his fish and nod to the tourists. Someone asks something and he assures them this is the standard way to get a quick dinner here. The tour guide has caught up with his group. He looks at my buddy and his fish and the general lack of fishing accoutrement. Without missing a beat, the guide backs up every ounce of bullshit out of my buddys mouth because if there is one true fraternity it is locals bullshitting stupid tourists.

[gougerre]

4th of July Car launch in Alaska

[maureen2musings]

Last rays in Alaska

fernlichtsicht

[herpsandbirds]

Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), in transitional plumage, family Phasianidae, Alaska

photograph by Kristina Ellis

[zegalba]

A mysterious spiral in the sky over Alaska spotted by aurora borealis watchers last week (2023)

[rosechata]

elliothawkey

[spacewonder19]

Northern Lights over Alaska © Vincent_Ledvina

[hagofbolding]

Studies from a trip to Alaska earlier this week. I could have stayed forever

[folkfashion]

Sugpiat women, Alaska, by Lexi Qass’uq Trainer

[expressions-of-nature]

Cottongrass in Alaska by Wolfhorn

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