I was going to do a blog post about my last days of fishing on the Bonnie J. I've given the boat to a worthy person I believe and I wanted to reflect a little bit on my time with her, but yesterday my son Brian called with the news that my friend and long time Hoonah resident Fagan Skaflestad had passed away. It came as quite a shock to me for some reason. I don't know why. He was in his early eighties I believe, but he always seemed so robust, so full of life. He was one of those guys that just seemed like would live forever. I can't even recall when we first met, I feel like I've known him most of my life. His family has been around Hoonah for decades. His dad, Alf, had a logging business and he and the boys logged up and down Port Frederick for years. They had a camp up in Salt Lake Bay if I recall correctly, and Fagan used to tell me about running around in a skiff up in the Narrows, fishing for King Salmon. He had the uncanny ability of finding fish when few oth
Nice 6 a.m. read. You get to an age where you realize the many changes around you seem more memory than reality. It's a matter of perspective found leaning against the harbormaster's office wall, on park benches, supported at times by polished canes and bifocals. The near and far vision has nothing to do with eyesight.
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ReplyDeleteIt seems the changes are coming more rapidly than I remember, or maybe I never took the time to realize that they were occuring around me, I was too busy to notice. What I've experienced with change, is that it seems to be something I seldom care for.It's uncomfortable and seems to profit others- hence the push for change by those wanting something that they can't get with the current cicumstances. How much change would we experience if we were all looking out for the other person's well being? Some things we just have to accept- the bifocals and sore muscles. It doesn't make it any more easy to take though. Thanks for commenting, you're always so profound in your thought.
Elfin Cove is one place I never went...Lewis, however...guessin he was a relation to Travis Lewis...the guy who was Jen and Lance's best man years ago....anyways..that's the only thing that rang a bell!
ReplyDeleteNobody kicked out XIP. They left.
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