Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Spotted Seal hunting in Alaska

I went Seal and Sea Otter hunting for the first time in the spring of 2013 in a small Kodiak Island village.  It was so successful that the host of our hunting trip wouldn't allow me to sit around and skin hides he instructed "Hope you can drop the knife and grab a new gas can, get back out there.  The other lady (she doesn't get a feature here) can finish your hides."  Well, My husband and I pleaded to just skin our own hides as we had about nine Northern Sea Otter's the first morning we were out.  To our dismay and hers, we dropped the knives and proceeded to shoot 6 more Otter's and he a Spotted seal which was on the move in a pod of about 21.  It was life changing, to say the least, watching an Inupiaq from Kotzebue, Alaska, hunt with such precision while standing in a moving skiff. I took photos and ran the small motor boat so we stayed just close enough to the moving pod so that he can shoot with obvious skill.  We only went back to the dock to offload the six huge Sea otters.  That is all we could carry on the boat.