Salmon Festival

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Salmon Festival with our friends, Katie and Joe. This has been something that Hyatt has looked forward to since we moved here and he heard that there was an opportunity to catch a salmon with your bare hands. We had perfect weather for it and thoroughly enjoyed our time, although the actual catching of the salmon ended up being a little more tricky than anticipated. Joe, however, somehow managed to catch two - the second one with just one hand while already holding his first one in his other hand! Hyatt says that next time he would use gloves rather than trying to do the barehanded thing, as they were more slippery than he bargained for. It's hard to capture the time in a blog entry, but let's just say that Joe had Hyatt hold his second fish for him, and the fish got away from him... and Hyatt ended up getting a fish at the very end.... one that looked kind of dead and was sort of floating in the corner. I think it was a real prize fish, though, because this was one that escaped ALL of the other people that had been in there, and maybe he was just floating a little because he was plain tuckered out after dodging the crowds.

Of course, this festival had its fun quirky things, too, as you'll see in the pictures below - our favourites being the man dressed in the salmon costume - without any pants on, and the men's outhouses that don't have full doors:)