While it was a great week camp wise, it was busy and we really didn't do much otherwise.
The only day we really got out was our travel day. We checked out the Yukon Delta Wildlife Refuge visitor center. I had been there a couple years ago on my first trip to Bethel but wanted to revisit. The best part is the taxidermy- I've been trying to learn more and more about the native plants and animals but it takes so much time. With berries alone there are all kinds. Salmon berries (a yellowish raspberry type thing) were just starting to ripen and a good amount of blueberries too. Definitely filled my belly with some of those a couple afternoons!
That rabbit is GIANT.
Polar bear....
RAWR!
Couldn't pass up this photo op
Walking to the plane with my co-worker- it was SO windy. No one else seemed phased but us.
All loaded up.... (notice the ceiling)....
This is the "Should we really be flying in a duct taped plane in this kind of wind face"
It ended up not being a bad flight at all- I even fell asleep for a few minutes. The other nerve racking aspect of this travel day was that we hadn't actually made contact with our contact in Akiak. We tried all morning to call to see who would pick us up from the plane and give us a key to the school where we would be staying. We were just hoping some kind person would help us once we landed. It was fine. A lady in a truck pointed me to a white mini-van....I walked over and said we needed to get to the school... he didn't say much, just backed up the van to the plane to load our stuff and told us to get in. We did. Turns out he was the Era Airline agent and that's just how it works here. We got to the school- but of course were locked out. We just started asking around and before we knew if we found who we needed and got our key. We were set and ready to go for another week of camp!
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