Mother Nature is killing us - and pissing me off! May 31, 2013

Mother Nature and I have not gotten along well this year at all and it just seems to keep getting worse. I experience the coldest winter in Arizona in 60 years and then the latest spring in Alaska in well over 40 years and now above average warm temperatures with snow and ice melting with a vengeance and now we have flooding....Two weeks ago we still had ice on the river and freezing temperatures every day, the past two weeks it has been bright blue skies and sunshine and 70 plus degrees!

We had to move the Fur Trapping display from the river camp down to the dog camp because the river is over the banks and for a while was threatening the cabins....today only "Fort Relief" the porta potties are under water and we can't make our guests wade through 3 feet of water to get to the cabin so we moved everything...

The only good news is now the river is so high we will be able to do some exploring in the airboat tomorrow, but it will be difficult to see how the river will be running when the water goes down, but it looks like we will be running the boats in a day or so, once all the logs and debris and remaining ice gets out of the way.

I took a few picture today so you can see what we are dealing with...

The road into the river camp!



The River Camp



The river...



Needless to say the river is ripping...still quite a bit of debris washing down and some huge chunks of ice occasionally. However we are better off than some whole towns along the Yukon are flooded and they expect more flooding downstream and if you look in the mountains there is still quite a bit f snow to come down...we will have plenty of water for quite a while!

Stay Tuned the excitement continues to build...



Capt. Jim - "The Gypsy"

Traveling and photographing the Southwest