Another night on the Gulkana

Here are a couple of pics from the last float trip:

Often, when we're full in the raft or we have some adventurous folks around, we'll have guests follow us in the raft with some of our kayaks. A couple of nights ago, the weather was glorious, the mountains were in full view with their fresh snow (Audie was snowed on during his early morning bird tour two mornings ago!), and two fellows from California were having a great time river kayaking for the first time in their lives.

It's really hard to take photos and paddle a raft at the same time, reason why I don't often have photos from the float trips, but I happened to bring my camera along this night because just the night before on our trip we floated underneath TWO Northern Hawk Owlets sitting on a branch together, just watching us float right underneath them. I was bound and determined to be lucky and see them again that next night. Well....not as cute a pose, but we did find them. This little guy was sitting right on shore...

And his mom was in the spruce overhead, getting harassed and dive-bombed by two Arctic Terns. 
 And below is Audie, teaching our California kayakers and our rafters, a group of Italians, about our river.