The End is Near

Cheaper this year.

Watermelon anyone!

Port of Nome.

Nome, AK

The Alaska range looking south from Denali.

The Locals

Musk Ox hanging out napping.

The only thing missing is Alaska roofing material...blue tarp!

A few more dredges have joined the fray.

Multi Tasking, bar and laundromat together!

Unique Dredges

Crawler excavator dredge.

Maned Submarine dredge...just when you think it's all been done before!  

Random

Red Dan coffee crate from San Franisco, CA...1916 date on the side.

The tundra appears to be absorbing this Old dump truck.

Winter is hard on stop signs around these parts as can be seen by the standby stop signs here.

Just liked the composition of this stump. Nome has no trees, drift wood travels the rivers like the Yukon from interior Alaska to the Bearing Sea and then gets deposited along the coast of the Seward Peninsula.

Just looking...!

Fish Camp

Outwaters Family fish camp, Memorial Day.  My first tast of dried seal meat...could be an acquired tast.

No trip in Alaska is complete without getting stuck or breaking something...we accomplished one of the two!

Entering Port of Nome, wind let up enough to get on the water today but turbidity was one to two feet at best and we only jumped one diver.

Weather Bit

Dusty streets of Nome!

Beach launched dredge...when there's a will, there is a way.

Many dredges dry docked threw the winter.

Big boy dredges!

On Standby

Old Mining Equipment at road side park.

Anvil Park. (Town Square)

1 am Sun set.

On Standby

Old Mining Equipment at road side park.

Anvil Park. (Town Square)

1 am Sun set.

Weather

Dog sled camp...our neighbors.

Home sweet home.

Back for Another Go

Nome terminal

We are the first dredge in the water this year!

View of Nome from Norton Sound.

There is a reason we are the first dredge on the water...the sea ice is still flowing in and out with wind and the tides.

Beach day for the locals, the sun came out today.

Navigating sea ice can be an experience.