{"id":10843,"date":"2017-06-03T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2017-06-03T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T17:48:41","slug":"the-alaskan-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/03\/the-alaskan-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat Shalom\u2026Back from the Alaskan Frontier!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just flew in from Sitka, Alaska and arrived home<\/strong> Thursday evening. I spent more than a week 75 miles SE of Sitka at a remote location called Little Port Walter, which is accessible only by boat or float plane. We flew in and out of LPW by float plane.<\/p>\n

While there, I spent several days deep\u00a0sea fishing, hiking into the subalpine areas behind and above LPW, sightseeing by boat the neighboring coastline, inlets, coves and fjords, filming the flora and fauna along with the pristine and majestic scenery, reading and writing, and catch and eating fish and more fish! Had an encounter with a grizzly bear (up close), while in the back country, swam in the ocean and a mountain lake, toured two fish hatcheries, helped to do scientific research of salmon, read my Bible and prayed, was given my Shavuot sermon\/teaching (fresh manna from heaven), and conducted interviews of people who live and work in Alaska for my several upcoming videos on this\u00a0once-in-a-lifetime trip.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of my photos:<\/p>\n

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View from Little Port Walter Bay looking out toward Chatham Straight and the Pacific Ocean.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nathan deep sea fishing in Alaska.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nathan\u00a0and Gary’s\u00a0catch of the day.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob and Nathan’s catch of another day.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our Alaskan wilderness backdrop while fishing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nathan journeling with Little Port\u00a0Walter in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The sign says it all!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fresh grizzly bear footprints on our trail while hiking into the back country.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hiking in the Alaskan back country.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nathan encounters a giant old growth Sitka spruce in the mountains of Alaska.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sashen Lake\u2014a pristine and unspoiled spot where almost no humans ever go. I drank water directly from the lake!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nathan savoring Yehovha’s creation after having just taken a swim in the lake.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hope you enjoyed these.<\/p>\n

There are still places on the earth that man hasn’t ruined and where the voice of Yehovah’s \u00a0is louder than that of the world and the devil!<\/p>\n

Shabbat shalom.<\/p>\n

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