{"id":123,"date":"2008-09-01T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/going-out-with-a-bang-the-summer-that-is\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:21:29","slug":"going-out-with-a-bang-the-summer-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Going out with a bang (the summer, that is..)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started out the summer (Memorial weekend) with a fantastic camping trip with Nathan, Amanda, and Adam on Portland Island (track down the blog entry).\u00a0 The 2008 summer went out in a similarly fantastic style–a weekend in Tenakee Springs (with Nathan, Amanda, and Adam–we need to hang out with those guys more often, if the weekends keep turning out like these did… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The above panorama does an ok job of capturing it.. You can click on either the image or this link<\/a> to get a “.mov” which should fire up in quicktime and let you pan and zoom and navigate around the panoramo.\u00a0 Use the arrows to navigate and shift\/control to zoom in and out.<\/p>\n

Carrie and Torsten flew out on Ward Air direct to Tenakee on Thursday.\u00a0 Matt stuck around Juneau to get the “SEAMONSTER 2” proposal in, and teach the first class of the semester (both worked out well, I think..).<\/p>\n

On Friday, Matt went out on Alaska Seaplanes and went through Angoon.\u00a0 Our introduction to Tenakee was fantastic.\u00a0 First, we all had a good soak in the hot springs.\u00a0 We enjoyed walking down main street.\u00a0 Carrie loved the store and the cash register:<\/p>\n

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We walked about a mile to the cabin that Nathan had just helped put up..<\/p>\n

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What a location!\u00a0 We had a delicious crab meal on Friday night. Nathan pulled ’em up, with the help of the boys.\u00a0 After the boys examined the crabs, the crabs got their revenge by chasing the boys around (with Nathan’s help…), and then we got our revenge (and dinner)–yum!<\/p>\n

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We loved our Tenakee visit for many reasons–I (Matt) was happy to relax in preparation for the upcoming semester–I really needed it!\u00a0 Here’s a few photos from main street and the public restroom (below high tide line!)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Part of the amazing experience was whales (humpback) swimming by at least once a day, along with seals, sea lions, lots of birds, fish jumping, etc. etc…\u00a0 The final day, we had at least 17 whales (we decided it was either about 20 hyperventalating whales or 40 normally-breathing whales!) and we had three whales breach at one time–fantastic!\u00a0 And the berries were at their prime and the bushes were full..\u00a0 The hike back out to catch the ferry home was long, and the whole weekend was phenomenal but tiring:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0More pictures are at the gallery<\/a>, as usual.\u00a0 The ferry ride was long (with a stop off in Hoonah), but the whales followed us, and we got another nice breach.\u00a0 We’re scheming on finding some miracle way of buying a cabin out in Tenakee…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We started out the summer (Memorial weekend) with a fantastic camping trip with Nathan, Amanda, and Adam on Portland Island (track down the blog entry).\u00a0 The 2008 summer went out in a similarly fantastic style–a weekend in Tenakee Springs (with Nathan, Amanda, and Adam–we need to hang out with those guys more often, if the … <\/p>\n

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