Saturday, July 25: Day 43

During low tide this morning, we all went down to play flag football. It was a bit of a struggle to run very fast on the rocky beach because your feet would sink into the small rocks and it would be hard to push off the ground for a run but it was still a good time. Fortunately we had the priesthood leaders that helped with strategy. We'd be pretty lost without them, for sure. In a lot of these pictures, you can see the seaweek on the rocks that are usually covered with water. The whole area that we were running on is covered up during high tide.

Some group pictures on the beach:

The following picture is a mixture of us doing the "pregnant swan" and the "pegasus", both of which were born from the animal game (see previous post from this week...I think it was Monday?)

Then we had to pack up, sadly. And once again, it was drizzling rain. We began loading the charer boat once again one bag at a time. Only there were a couple of carts that did about half the work. On the way down the ramp, we saw some fishermen cutting some halibut. I'd never seen halibut except on a plate with breading on it. So it was quite cool to me!

We had some extra time before the boat took off, so we walked up to the Russian Orthodox church that is in town. You can't go inside, so after snapping a few photos, that was really all there was to do. I don't know much about this specific building, but the religion was brought over when Russian explorers settled all over Alaska, particularly along the southern coastline.

There was also a very cute little resaurant/cafe that we stepped inside to see. The table tops liked like this:They had a bunch of books that you could pull off the shelf and read and you sipped hot cocoa and ate your sandwich. Very cool little place. The second picture is an example of the way many of the shops along the main street looked. This particular place was where I got my postcards.And a few final shots of the coastline as we sailed away.

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A final good-bye to Outside Beach:

I loved Seldovia!