Succesful Elk Hunt

 

We got back from our Afognak elk hunt last Friday and I am only now getting around to the first post.  It was a successful hunt as we harvested 2 bull elk.  Since we got back it has been a blur of activity - cutting up and packaging the meat and then putting everything away.  We ended up with around 525 pounds of packaged meat - that is a lot of elk meat!

On the elk hunt we also got to do a lot of hiking and camping.  Sometimes on successful elk hunts the camping and hiking is limited.  Not so for this elk hunt - we harvested the elk on different trips to shore and very little of the hiking was duplicated on the trips back to the boat.  We camped on shore for 3 of the nights, and the weather was pretty spectacular.

It did rain on the first couple of days.  But even on those days the sun made appearances.  And then the final days were all crisp and clear.  The full moon was so bright at night that we did not need lights in the teepee.  One night we even went outside and saw the comet.  It was hard to see with the naked eye but through the binoculars it was crystal clear.

More on the hunt in posts to come.

Patrick

We could see the comet at night while camping