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Lake Sunrise

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Photograph of an October sunrise at Chignik Lake. With the sun coming up over the mountains at the lower end of the lake at this time of year, fall sunrises were often spectacular.
Sunrise
From our living and dining room windows, we would follow the position of the sun as it changed with each season. Autumn mornings, when the sun rises over the lower end of the lake, are often spectacular. Coho Salmon are still migrating up the lake and river at this time of year, and on still mornings such as this we would watch from our windows for wakes and bulges along the shoreline. Chignik Lake, 10/16/17

Leaper at The Bend

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Photograph of Barbra hooked up with a high-leaping Coho Salmon on the Chignik River in early September, the landscape still mostly in green.
Leaper at The Bend – Ten Pounds of Silver two feet in the air at the juncture where Chignik Lake, to Barbra’s left, necks down and becomes Chignik River, to Barbra’s right. The village of Chignik Lake is on this near shore, less than half a mile up the lake. Approximately six miles from this spot, the river enters the salt waters of the estuary at Chignik Lagoon. Here at the early peak of the Coho Salmon run in early September, though most of the flowers are finished and summertime nesting birds are gone, low along the water alders are still wearing summer green; higher up the slopes, vegetation is autumn gold.