Fish Camp, Part 3; Halibut Cove, 2017
Fish Camp is an intensive human-salmon and human-human interaction. It has all the best aspects of beneficial human activity (cooperative hunting-gathering-food preparation) in context of what is arguably the world's most perfect food and certainly the world's most aesthetic. And it has quasi-cult overtones (what Ray Troll would call Salmon Worship) with no attendant guilt.
Eventually even the best human activities must wind down and come to an end. Here is the last installment of photos in the Fish Camp 2017 series.
August 10 addition: Please note that I have loaded (many) more Fish Camp photos in a dedicated gallery. Here is the direct link:
http://www.zenfolio.com/bobeastaughimagery/p270651134
Don and Suzanne tend to the first smoker.
Re-invigorating the flame
Don waits while the fish smoke. Baron and Cleo stay busy.
Sophie, Don, Suzanne, and Carol fill jars with smoked chunks.
Carol's work station: smoked chunks, filled jars, empty jars
Jars of smoked salmon await pressure cooking.
Sealing the pressure cooker
Don awaits conclusion of pressure cooking.
Baron awaits conclusion of the pressure cooking.
Dennis, Don, Marlene, and Suzanne check the pressure cookers on Don's float.
A crow harvests unguarded cracklings after all the smoked chucks were pressure cooked.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.