Monday afternoon, Michelle walked along Beach Road, which passes along Haines’s Lynn Canal waterfront. She saw a teenaged girl who was very excited about an animal standing along the side of the road.
The girl asked Michelle, “What is that?” Michelle told her that she thought it was a porcupine. The girl replied that she thought it was a beaver.
As Michelle approached it, she saw that it was, in fact, a beaver.
Michelle’s cell phone photo of the beaver (Photo: Michelle L. Zeiger).
A sense of growing excitement pervades the homestead, as spring advances, and the herring run approaches. Gulls and other sea birds gather in larger flocks, sitting on the water, perching on the rocks, and filling the air with their cries. The sea lions patrol the waters off our beach in larger, more playful and vociferous groups. Eagles call and dog fight above the cabin. Small boats whiz north and south as townspeople begin to try their luck for herring and Dolly Varden char in Mud Bay.
