Tall Tales And Travel

We crossed the north edge of the Gulf of Alaska to reach Montague Island, where we spent Day Two and Day Three of the 8-day cruise.    As we were anchored in Macleod Harbor the evening of Day Two, Cherie gave a report on our wildlife sighings while she was fishing for halibut at the stern of the Best Friends. She and I thought we’d seen Dall porpoises but we learned later they were harbor porpoises, Other sightings included Sitka blacktail deer, a humpback whale and seals. Larre and Pat were up on the sundeck, watching deer through their binoculars. They tell about trolling for salmon and losing part of one of the two down riggers. Larre describes how to tell the difference between halibut and flounder, and how to land a salmon versus a halibut.   On the evening of Day Three, all four of us gathered in the salon of the Best Friends to review the day’s activities.More animal sightings were reported, along with a successful fishing report. Larre described how he chose a location to look for halibut, Pat describ