Saturday, June 28, 2008

More about St. Mary's, Alaska

This was back on May 17th, or somewhere around there. They were not happy to be having snow that day!! The airport is about 7 miles away from St. Mary's. This is the area around the airport with pretty mountains aways in the distance.
This is the town of Mountain Village. I don't remember how far away it is from St. Mary's... I want to say about 15 miles. It looks like it is built on the side of the mountain. Below is a picture of the town, closer, with the cemetary showing up higher on the mountain. Interesting!!
A commercial fish "camp"..... probably on the Yukon River which is not too far from St. Mary's.
It is a little hard to tell what is going on in this picture, but Andrew was telling me that these people had gone up or down river to get some logs, I don't know for sure what they were being used for, maybe firewood or to build something. But they tie them together and float them in front of the boat. Here is some of the fancy framing that Darryl Quesenberry is doing in one of the school buildings. Darryl Q. and Brian showing off their work. :)
Darryl's big pike.
My "little man's" big pike!
....bigger pike!!
Love this picture, he was making fun of his little catch!
Nice and green now, St. Mary's, Alaska.

The outside of the elementary school.
An airplane taking off on a beautiful day.

1 comments:

Kim M. said...

Great pictures... St. Mary's looks like a really neat place. And I must say I'd love to go fishing there!