Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Fishing and Stargazing

Friday night Sara and I drove over to Cameron lake to watch the sunset there. Cameron lake is an idyllic, quiet spot surrounded by mountains on all sides. Simply beautiful and other than a floating dock, to which Sara, her cousin heather and I swam to, completely untouched by man. The water is clear and calm and the sun reflects of its surface as if it were a mirror (See the pictures below). After we watched the sun go down we drove back to Sara's street and right passed the house until the end of the road. Here we climbed onto the roof of our car and stared into the eternal starlit sky. Here I must elaborate for my readers that live in Germany, that when you look into the sky, you don't even see a tenth of the stars, I could see the Milky Way with my bare eyes (again see pictures below).

Saturday Sara's uncle, grandfather, father and I went out fishing in the ocean, the first good catch of the day, was really heavy, broken the reel I was working so I had to wind the reel manually, turned out to be kelp and a large rock. After about 6 hours out on sea we did catch one Salmon worth keeping which I then cleaned out under instruction of Sara's mom. After it was cleaned we filleted it and pulled most of the bones out (this all happened Sunday) and finally threw on the barbecue. It tasted awesome.
Sunset over Cameron Lake, Taken with my Nexus 7 FHD
Cameron Lake and Sunset, Taken with my D50

The Milky Way, and stars, as seen above Sara's house
Cameron Lake's crystal clear W
waters