As of July 23rd...

Yea haw, today is day 30 of our 60 day contract, just relaxing on anchor now, reading, writing this, drinking coffee. I saw Harry two days ago. Had the night off in Haines, we went out to the 'Fog Cutter' and the Pioneer Bar, or P-bar as it's called. The fog cutter was quite, we had a beer, caught up, then wandered up to the P-bar, a band was just setting up, a lively crowd energized with booze and chatter crowded the place. I met a few of Harry's friends including a lady from Melbourne, AU. I chatted with her for a while, asked her about her favorite spots in Australia. Told her Jake and I traveled around down there a bit, but never made it to Melbourne. I told her Byron was my favorite, she said she liked it, but it was getting a little too trendy, then she said "but...there's a little place outside Byron, called Nimbin" she was grinning and gave Nimbin two thumbs up. I cracked up a bit, told her I'd been, what a wild little town. Also met some guys from the East coast who were river guides out here, one works at the mexican restaurant that we frequent. He recognized me as 'the kid from Mosey's'...Moseys is the best, the food isn't soaked in grease and cheese, but still has all the flavor, and presentation to boot. This guy works there when he's not on river trips. The owners of the place, Martha and Thad stewart, are old time river guides who fell in love with Haines when they were visiting and ended up relocating and opening up the restaurant. Anyways, had a good time listening to the music, chatting with interesting people.
Harry was telling me that Kelsey and Dwight were in Haines a couple days ago. Apparently they were having a few drinks out at Harry's and were riding around on his little 80cc motobike. D-wight was doing about thirty, trying to shift into fourth, and failed to notice a closed gate right in front of him. I guess he put a good gash in his head but was pretty lucky, the clinic wanted to put a couple stitches on him but he declined because it was going to be a hundred bucks a stitch or so. I saw him last night when the Karluk pulled into anchorage, we hollered back and forth at each other for a while and he says he's fine.
Turns out one of my friends from Big Sky, Tony, is working as a crew member on the gillnetter "Legacy," the legacy is in the Karluk's fleet. Kelso recognized him from the mountain. He worked in the lifty department with us. He'd been there a couple years, and had the best job, snowboarding around all day giving breaks to lifties. I road-tripped down to Brighton, Utah with him and a couple others for a weekend a couple of winters ago but haven't seen him since Big Sky. I told Guy, so we swung by the Legacy this morning and said hello. Next weekend is the State fair in Haines, so we made some tentative planes to meet up for that. With any luck the Karluk (with Kelsey, Dwight and Ron) will be there as well, we'll see.