Photo: If it wasn't for the snow there'd be no snow at all.
So I got a call from Braden to say there'd been a really heavy snowfall and
Sänna was much too low in the water. He said many of the fishing boats in Hoonah harbour were bad but not to worry, because they're gonna get their shovels and clear the snow as best they could. Then he called to say everything was OK but a few days later he called and said there'd been another bad storm and this time everything had froze over... meanwhile we're sitting in the sunshine of sunny Norfolk all stressed out wandering what the hell we'll find in a few weeks time when we get back onboard...
Then our good friend Braden called to say he and his dad Scott, with Dennis and the boys from the Hoonah town council had set to with their shovels and that
Sänna was fine. But then he called again late one night to say another heavy snowfall had come by and they'd chased the brown grizzly snoozing in
Sänna's frozen cockpit away. Everything's fine and not to worry he said...
Thank God for the fishermen in Hoonah! That's what I said. In my new euphoric state I happily told Braden I'd book everyone in Hoonah a top-wack sunshine holiday in Barbados. He laughed and told me Barbados was much too hot, that he'd heard sunny Norfolk was good and he'd really like an English girlfriend with curly-blond pigtails, with freckles and a giggly laugh, a nice girl his mother would like, a girl he could take back to Alaska to fish and cook and...
So, you nicely freckled English girls out there, if you'd like to get together with a handsome early twenties Robert Pattinson lookalike, GSOH, non-smoker who likes long walks, fine dining and cosy evenings by the fireside then please don't call. If you'd like a wild carefree life onboard an Alaskan fishing boat working hard for the occasional big haul, well hooked-up with a genuinely nice guy who really is a Robert Pattinson lookalike, you would really help us out...
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