Sunday, March 27, 2011

March in Sitka









The weather here in Sitka has been cold but beautiful for the past few weeks. It's been sunny almost every day (which is why our city power is about to switch to emergency generators because our source of hydropower is at dangerously low levels due to no rain!), which has been super nice but has been threatening to end any day now (which is fine with me at this point because I highly value my electricity!).
We were lucky enough to enjoy at least one last nice weekend before the next round of liquid sunshine. MC went out camping on Friday at one of the cabins off of the island and had a great time. I didn't go because I already had tickets for a whale watch cruise for Saturday morning, which was awesome. Perfect time of year because the herring fishery is about to kick off here in Sitka, which brings in a lot of whales. Weather was nice, waters were calm. Saw lots of whales (none breaching unfortunately), tons of sea otters and sea lions. Very cool. Here are a few pics from our weekend adventures. MC went out fishing with some friends last weekend and they caught lots of rockfish and halibut so I had to throw a pic of that in too.