Today was an important day for ITN and for us. While the CGPS interns didn’t start the trail, we laid a tremendous stretch of geoblock and finished what needed to be done for this summer. The crew leaders were proud of our speed since we finished a day earlier than expected! To make things even better, it was a very dry day at Anton Larson. We even had some sunshine in the afternoon, and at about 9:30 that night the skies turned blue and we got the first direct sunlight we had seen since our first day here. Ethan and Shane went to work on a campfire right after dinner and soon enough we were roasting marshmallows and making Smores. It’s amazing how much fun you can have when the sun doesn’t go down. After an hour of sitting around the campfire, we walked over to a buoy swing that the crew leaders had rigged. Justin, our resident photographer, took some great shots of “the buoy swing Olympics” commentated by our very own Jon Sabin. We won’t be able to get Justin’s photos on the site until we get back, so let me explain a bit about what a buoy swing is all about:
Many fisherman use large round rubber inflatable buoys to mark their crab pots. They are about the size of a hippity hop (if you remember those) and a myriad of them are lost while fishing and wash up on the beaches here. They are then tied to trees like tire swings would be. The one at Anton Larson is particularly exciting because you have to climb a bank to get to it and then you swing out from the bank and back. It’s pretty safe though, because you can just sit on the ball and there is a line attached to the bottom as well, so you can be reeled back in if necessary.
After the buoy swing we rekindled the campfire and enjoyed the sunshine until after midnight. The light was incredible on the snowcapped mountains that surrounded us. I believe Justin spent some time trying to capture it on camera. All in all, a picturesque way to end the evening.
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