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Waders $230, guide $150, car hire $80, catching 10 silver salmon between 8 and 12lb in 5 hours… priceless.

I booked a trout and salmon fishing adventure with Alaska Trout Outfitters tomorrow. I get 5 hours guided salmon fishing on the Russian River for US$150, which isn’t too bad.
I also bought myself some new gortex waders (there an investment in my future - i.e. tomorrow ) at the princely sum of US$230.
I will [...]

Ok, here’s a few photos from the frozen north. In Anchorage right now, no time to pontificate ad nausem…
Ticking the boxes:
bears
moose
northern lights
crazy alaskans
glaciers
reindeer burger
arctic ground squirrel etc…

Check the Alaska gallery for more.

I’m a tired puppy. Just got here to the backpackers hostel in Anchorage. It’s about 3:30pm local time (I think it’s around 10am in Sydney. Basically, I just spent around 25 hours on four different flights, went through customs three times and security checks about 10 times. Because I’m such a dodgy looking punk - [...]

Ok I have just finished cleaning the lunch room at my work place. Not because it is my job and not because I enjoy it (maybe a little bit of “I have to kill some time and look busy”) but mainly because people are such bloody pigs when it comes to this bawdy [...]