Luke tom nate and jake here with the outdoor boys youtube channel and today we're going to alaska yeah  we are going to be in alaska for six weeks now i have a lot of family up in alaska so we visit frequently we've done videos up in alaska back in 2015.

2018 earlier this year in 2020 and we are going to do some stuff we have never done before survival camping on an island out in the ocean we're going to land an airplane on a glacier we're gonna catch salmon and remote rivers we're gonna go kayak fishing we're gonna.

Explore old military bunkers but first we've gotta get this family of five and eight pieces of luggage to the airport and fly on a plane for ten and a half hours oh  all right guys.

 um who is this masked man tommy are you glad to be back in alaska well we made it to my sister's house which is conveniently next to my parents house and we've got the kids fed and to bed and it is a beautiful saturday evening.

Here in alaska and we are going to take it easy and go to bed early because we have an intense and exciting six weeks ahead of us i'll see you guys in the morning look at this beautiful day now you guys ready to see cousins yeah all right.

Now gotta take your shoes off in alaskan houses  you go to taiwan you should need to learn how to say did you guys have a good time with cousins yeah we had a great day going to church and hanging out with family and the kids got to play with cousins.

But it's bedtime now and poor jacob is having a hard time understanding why he has to go to bed when the sun's shining so much but i'll see you guys in the morning we are going hiking camping and fishing  when i pick it up it's white and when i.

Kill it on my back oh all right guys you ready to go camping  yeah  here we are guys in portage alaska just on the other side of the mountain from whittier.

Surrounded by mountains and glaciers we're gonna head through this one lane tunnel and all the way under this mountain to the city of whittier and because it's only one lane there's a schedule for which direction of traffic goes at which times and occasionally they have trains through there too because there's a set.

Of railroad tracks right down the center whittier is a fascinating town it is very rainy and in the wintertime it gets a load of snow so much snow that if you leave your car parked outside during the winter time the snow will crush it like a monster truck but because of the snow.

And the scarcity of land it's just really expensive to build houses so most people here live in one apartment building up on the hill the last few trips to alaska we've come fishing here and if you hit it right when the pink salmon are running this place is.

Amazing look look there's one right there there's one a couple right there tommy look the salmon are jumping out of the water look at that i don't know if you guys can see it but there are so many salmon right there that it's black there's this massive school of them and they're just jumping out of the.

Water every once in a while look at that but these are pink salmon and they're really close to spawning so they've already started to turn colors so that's not the ideal fish to eat salmon tastes best when they're pure silver seeing some fish and hermit crabs and.

Stuff yeah i just saw her look here's some limpets you want to eat one yeah there you go we've got a lot of hiking to do today so we're going to just keep moving you okay nathan yeah that happened the first time  all right guys we're here we are gonna.

Be doing the emerald cove trail if all goes well we are gonna get to camp by the ocean and do some surf fishing and uh not get eaten by bears not really all right  it rains a ton here and we're actually really lucky the weather's perfect today.

    jump out of the line  see we're just walking along the coast trying to get to a deserted cove.

We gotta cross this little creek  give me your hand there you go    be  yeah looks like the bridge bro.

I got wet look at this are you relaxing  well this looks like a nice spot to camp tommy over there is just popping limpets as fast as he can are you eating limpets yeah me and lippin.

I i only ate one you only eat one little bit i must open my knife but i want to eat everything we have all right should we get you out of your wet clothes there oh  this is what 9 p.m in alaska looks like but.

The boys are tuckered out and it's past their bedtime so we're getting them in their beds and we're going to get them all asleep well nathan has already completely zonked out so we're gonna let him rest and me and tommy are gonna watch some movies on our phone aren't we buddy good morning nathan good morning.

Well boys you ready to hike back yeah all right let's do it mmm ocean snack um bladder or there's these little bubbles on the end of the seaweed and uh it actually tastes good it's kind of like salty garden peas the ants go marching.

Oh i think we found a deep hole here here we're gonna get you up give me up give me a hand go watch out for that stream here nate give me a hit oh we can see the car we made it oh my shoulders are a little tender well you guys want to get some food before we.

Head back we've got cotton candy moose flavor and caribou flavor which one do you want couldn't pick a more beautiful day today we got a couple money kids to play in your house all right come on hey here's my jingle oh i missed my jacob sorry.

Oh luke if i see this on your youtube i'll kill you all right guys i just got out of the shower and while i was in the bathroom my dad brought my donuts these are wiki wiki donuts right here check this out they're so huge oh.

Look at these things they do not skimp on the filling here you're right the pineapple is good oh yeah pineapple's good i like these two they're not as greasy as krispy kreme so you don't immediately hate yourself after you finish one morning i am sore and tired but i've got to continue to post videos.

While i'm on this trip so today is a relax eat donuts and do a ton of editing type of day well i'm taking a little break from the editing to go pick up some fishing gear so we're bnjs here we're going to see if we can't pick up some halibut fishing stuff.

Bnjs is an institution it's been here since i was a kid it's like our local shop here they have a lot of commercial fishing gear and sports fishing gear oh i love these things so i rented two rods and i bought a rod and reel combo and got a bunch of tackle and everything so this ought to set us up pretty good.

For friday well we've got a hike tomorrow so i've got to get the kids shoes dried we're setting the oven to low seems to be working all right guys you ready to go hang out with some cousins  yeah cookie marshmallow white chocolate reese's another cookie.

I'm good well it's been a lovely day but we've got to get packed and ready for tomorrow and i gotta get this little guy to bed so i'll see you guys in the morning jacob you enjoying my cereal yeah no we're gonna cut these in oh it's coming nate it's coming you better hold up you can't get switched you're gonna get smooches be safe and.

Listen to you okay oh chicken pizza we're about to get in the car and drive two hours south to seward where we are going to be hiking through the back country to a secret underground military base where we're gonna go camping you know alaska has one of the coolest traffic laws ever.

If you have more than five people behind you on the highway you have to pull over brilliant law  hey we're in seward alaska and any minute now a boat's going to take us off into the wilderness where we are going to explore and camp.

At an abandoned military base  that's leaving us behind we gotta walk home we're all alone only way me and nate are getting back is with our own two feet how about we go explore a military base check out this bear den look in here yep that's black bear poop.

Hey nathan nathan do you see the military base no it's hidden it's right here can you see it i'll give you a hint it's up there can you see it look at this this down here goes to the military bases underground can you go inside of the base we gotta.

Go find the secret entrance keep looking in the woods hey nathan did you spot something yeah show me show me what you found you ready all right  look at this oh this is so cool.

What's in here watch out there's a trapdoor i wonder if this was like a mess hall or something whoa this is so big there's like look at this there's doors look at all these doors  man this hallway is long look at all.

These rooms this is one of the few that i can squeeze through oh look over here we made it out oh look at this nate look at this we found it this is where the guns used to be this is where the giant six-inch artillery guns were and look over here resurrection bay.

That was cool was that totally worth the hike oh look at this what's in here oh look at this it's a machine gun nest see look at this they got these plates that are bulletproof like this is like one-inch steel is this cool or what nathan i'm really having fun.

So in case you're wondering the name of this fort is fort gilvery and it's on kane's head near seward alaska well nathan shall we go back to camp yeah yeah we got some good food waiting for us back at the camp good save dad yeah that tried to get you his dad had some mad skills thumbs up.

For that on the menu today is a prime well seasoned one and a half pound steak with green beans and warm bread however nathan wants cup of noodle that's his jam here try green beans they're good well nathan it is past your bedtime and we have to get up early.

Should we get going to bed yeah well today was a lot of fun but tomorrow's going to be a lot of work and adventure um i'm going to be hiking five miles through trail i've never been on before and three of that will be across a low tide beach zone and if we don't get those three miles.

Covered fast enough we will be stranded uh and we'll have to wait 12 hours for the next low tide to be able to finish our hike so no stopping no turning back we're gonna go to bed get a short night's sleep and i'll see you guys in the morning all right nathan you up.

Yeah you angry at me still a little bit because i woke up in the night this is the beach two and a half miles that way till we get off it that's it hmm  look at this this is beautiful tide has turned and is now officially.

Coming in that's a starfish oh look here's another one yeah he's alive this is my walking stick walk walk  walk  that's a chump salmon right there.

There's a whole bunch of salmon in here that's miller's landing where we started this whole adventure well we left camp five hours ago but we made it i'm tired man of you there you go  oh my goodness i am so exhausted and.

Sore but becca and melanie want to go out and do some stuff so i'm going to give the camera to them and they're going to go on a flight zeke trip we're going fighting yay oh i feel so weird we do we're going on one of those and we're in moose pass alaska.

He's sending me with video he's watching the kids oh that was very nice but i have to video it  so   you're welcome well good morning me and nate are back here at miller's landing.

And we are gonna do some fishing this is gonna be pretty awesome you ready yeah all right let's do this all right nathan you ready to get started all right hold on tight  i want to do a survival camping video.

With nathan and uh this is the island i want to do it at i wanted to see it first looks awesome looks absolutely perfect oh look at that there's a kilt  oh david we're catching fish.

All right buddy  look at that another greely so i think we better call it a day go flare up some of these lovely fish all right there we go you guarding those fillets nate all right well we got three and a half fish fillet.

And the seagulls got the rest dang it i was sitting there taking pictures of the fish with nate and nate goes the seagulls got some meat and i look over and the seagulls flew off with three rockfish fillets jeez all right back at the house time to cook up those rock fish we're making.

Fish tacos  all right guys there we go rock fish tacos tastes better hey jacob how do you like your fish taco good you got that need help good morning at six a.m and me and tom are up early to go meet with grandpa.

And we're gonna go on a float plane out to a lodge and we're going to go fishing for northern pike rock lou dickinson had one all right tom hop up on the scale they do not like the front should go next.

That's a grizzly bear you want to go see it you like that tom so this is the northwood lodge on the swetna river they do multi-day trips they do single day trips like what we're doing they even do self-guided trips if you want to save a little money there's a really nice little lodge here.

I wish i'd brought becca and stayed a couple days i have an adult universal just like that oh beautiful oh yeah he he engulfed that oh there we go whoa there we go there we go oh yeah look at that i have a son oh there we go oh a nicer.

Fish you guys think about that pike right there hold up oh yeah great fish didn't miss it because we had click weep here he comes yo look at that look at how far he's coming yeah that's a boy here we go very loose casual spitters.

How many pike do you think we've caught so far i mean it's got to be over 20 i feel like do you not get it no how did he miss that oh move it move it move it oh i just got hit there we go a little one oh there you go there you go all right my back is sore.

My arm is sore we have been just having a ball curious to see what pike around here are eating that looks like a baby pike to me doesn't it our plane's here guys we gotta take off we've had such a good time tommy is this pretty awesome.

 that's a long vlog here tom there you go what is this what's this daddy that's northern pike  all right here we go we got some fish and chips and fries and we're using the taco sauce from yesterday too because.

It's you know it's amazing all right guys well it is late i am sunburned and i'm gonna go to bed and i'll see you guys in the morning ah it's a beautiful morning and we are getting ready to go camping up until keaton all right guys.

We're here with phantom river charters and for a very reasonable price they will take you and drop you off various locations along the river and pick you up whenever you want and so we are going to camp all night and fish for uh silvers pings chums trout it's it's gonna be awesome.

And i think we might be eating some fresh salmon tonight here we go oh look at that look at all the salmon  here  thank you very much we'll see you tomorrow there goes our ride our connection to civilization now i.

Gotta find out where the boys ran off to you guys having fun hold it hold it he's taking line  how's that nathan that's a monster that is a lovely silver look at this oh it's another beautiful silver oh my goodness.

It is on fire we have gotten two silvers in five minutes here walk over here walk to shore there we go buddy your first silver got one buddy oh i think you might have a dolly here that is a beauty hold him up there so teeth oh look at him fight.

Oh he was crazy high five that was a heck of a fight nate another beautiful dying bright silver what a wonderful place to fish let alone camp huh we got a heck of a night ahead of us  well guys i'm gonna be eating barbecued.

Fresh salmon with corn on the cob but my boys are a bit more particular so nathan's got his favorite cup of noodle and tommy asked for steak so we got a little bit of everything for everyone ugh fresh alaskan salmon is one of those fish that's hard to screw up.

Hands down my favorite recipe is melted butter and brown sugar smothered all over a filet and grilled oh so good you go a slab of fresh grilled salmon and corn on the cob man oh that was so good i ate that entire fillet by myself.

If you're thinking of coming to alaska and you're on a budget the phantom river charter drop-off service should be number one on your list of things to do it's probably the best deal around for catching a salmon and if you're not confident enough to do this on your own what i would recommend is go with their charter.

Service their normal guided trips at the beginning of your trip figure out what's going on get some confidence figure out what gear to use what rigs to use and then come out here and do this on your own at the end of your trip kids settle down to bed all right guys lay down and go to sleep.

I think i'm gonna do a little fishing so this right here is a pink salmon and there are thousands of them right in there there you go i don't know if you can see this but there's easily 5-600 salmon in front of me.

All right this is why they call them humpies the males get the big hump on the back there we go another pink these pinks are just in here thick i'm getting hit almost every cast but i should get the fire going and get breakfast made so the boys have something warm to wake up to.

Good morning dad yeah you got we got a little sun on the old back waking up to bacon egg sandwiches all right our boats here let's get loaded up bam bam bam got three as soon as we threes we started holy mackerel we had such a good time i'll put a link in the video description.

To phantom river charter's website but oh we're sunburned and we're gonna go get some sunscreen we have about five hours to kill so uh we're gonna go into talking and just kind of see if we can find something to entertain ourselves we're here at atv tours and rides in talkeetna.

And we're gonna see if we can't go on a little atv ride with the boys and maybe just maybe tommy will get to drive his own atv you excited bud yeah you are you just hop up and wait and wait for his instructions okay  the tricky parts i'm gonna drive and.

Then the easy parts you're gonna get a drive okay all right nathan you ready yeah  tommy's doing great toby what do you think is this awesome this is so fun are you nervous nope.

 tommy high five yeah see the beer scratching the wood  i'll tell you what there's a lot of atv tours in alaska but very few that will let kids as young as nathan ride along and even.

Fewer than let kids as young as tommy drive was that one of your favorite things we've done so far that's my favorite tool we ever done before right there number six i can't wait to see photos mama brought food yay we settled in nicely into our cottage now we're gonna.

Take the kids over to a little playground and just kind of relax a little bit holy mackerel this is one great little playground i learned this at school hey vega i'm a little wide in the caboose this doesn't fit me too well.

Okay this may be the best playground i've ever seen it is 5 30 in the morning and are you guys glad to be up  now there we go i don't know if you guys can see it but there's probably 500 pink salmon right here just about 15 feet off the.

Tips of my fingers all right oh there we go there we go there you go  oh here you go right you got it right flip it flip it reel it reel it hard jerk him buddy keep that remember keep the rod tip up in the air oh that's a beautiful.

Fish that's bigger than daddy's that wouldn't take much whoa that one's fighting buddy oh he's he's freaking out big one  big fish of the day tom you know mom's caught a bigger silver than i've ever caught.

There you go tom oh first our first pink salmon looks almost like a rainbow trout all right we're gonna let him go of all the species of salmon we're likely to catch today silvers are the most popular to eat and your limit it doesn't really matter which salmon you catch you're only.

Allowed three salmon so we're letting go the pinks and keeping the silvers that's a pink i sure thought it was a silver oh it's actually a small pink too on top of that look at that as soon as we got grandpa out of there your bad luck went away.

Oh no it's a rainbow oh look at that it's all over grandpa oh good thing he's got the trout net hand look at the size of that rainbow here hold the pelican top oh the look at look at that oh yeah that was a beautiful rainbow thomas all right bud keep feeling yeah it's a big dolly.

 look at that oh that's a beautiful dolly that is a beautiful fish it's got these pink spots on them it feels like a child he was acting yeah he was  well those chum salmon are just loads of fun.

 oh we got a double here nate's got a fish grandma's got a fish i wanna picture that bucket yeah it is buddy that's the biggest salmon you've ever caught over the water here nice job all right there we go dad oh it's a silver this one's probably.

Gonna get off there you go yeah yeah pink salmon good job oh nathan's got one tom's got another one down there there nice pink sam you wanna hold him there we go oh look at the seal wound on him both boys are fishing for peaks here it's almost every cast with these i can't blame them those are loads of fun.

And there's loads of them this is eight number eight number eight look i have to use a lot of strength tommy is this so much fun yeah it is good job nade that's good right there look at you lassoed him nate nathan dad you're tearing them up a big old buck look at the hump on that.

Guy look at that that is a massive massive humpy yes it is  all right look at that keep running buddy  this is your 18th pink holy mackerel oh the beautiful rainbow gorgeous rainbow.

We've probably put 50 fish in the boat it's in four hours it's been amazing that seems about right  that is a pile of salmon flesh i have hunted and gathered yeah you have tomorrow hello everybody 97.8 perfect you're cool.

Well guys we are here at talkeetna air and we are going to do a flight scene tour of mount denali formerly known as mount mckinley sit where you like plenty of room what kind of a plane is it to have an otter.

 wow all right guys we're here on ruth glacier about six thousand feet and right there is the base of denali highest mountain in north america look at this this glacier is thousands if not millions of years old.

So you could be eating wooly mammoth pee are you eating the glazier tommy why are you laying in the snow with no shoes on it's full of snow stick what now whoa  not too far tommy.

See i'll be pleased to play again go go so  there    while we're winding down for the evening.

And i went to the store to get some dinner and end up buying loads of nachos and cheesecake so uh that's happening well we're packing up the car while the kids are playing in the park across the street and uh we're heading back to anchorage guys you have fun and tell keatna yeah.

 good sitting on the back deck with sparkling cider and peanuts this ain't too bad i opened it long ways well today is an easy day i am just working on editing videos catching up on sleep and tomorrow's sunday and because of the quarantine.

We've just been doing church at home and so just kind of couple unwind days and then monday we have got some great adventures we're gonna head down to homer we're heading over to my parents house to do home church and uh there's a moose right there look.

He's right there do you like that moose  you want to ride him yeah it is a beautiful monday morning and me and the family are packing up and driving down to homer alaska we're going to be doing some sea kayaking and fishing and lots of adventures.

All right buddy you ready to go homer   we actually rented a cabin here on the kilcher homestead which are kind of famous if you're into reality tv shows i think alaska the last frontier tv show is filmed here.

We're driving to our cabin and there's a porcupine this is not bad at all i get a lot of people asking me for links to the places we stay on these adventures so i'll make sure to put one in the video description  yeah nice view from the balcony when.

Good weather good views and good porches all line up you've got to barbecue what a great idea it's really good all right see you tomorrow dan he's sad he misses cousins all right guys it's bedtime well it's just loads of fun to eat out here in this beautiful back porch and.

Cook some food with my brother's family and just relax but it's late now and the kids are to bed and i've got to get up early to go kayak fishing in the morning so i'll see you guys in the morning all right i have my brother and his posterity here in the car and we are going to take a water taxi to.

A lodge where we are going to rent fishing kayaks and hopefully catch a lot of fish we're doing good   hello this is gonna be fun.

 we could catch ourselves sculpin a couple rockfish or a hundred pound halibut we just don't know that's not a salmon joe i'd really love to catch a halibut there we we go we got something going on here oh we got another sculpin yeah this.

One's pretty it's like a sea robin another sculpin lift him up oh he's adorable sounds like ben just hooked into a big halibut or something over there i'm gonna see what's going on that's a proper halibut that's what a 20 30 pounder yeah.

Ben congratulations you got a fish dan why dan what do you have there i thought it was snagged and then it started coming up a little bit but i've been playing it for 20 minutes and i can hardly get to move up my my brother's over there playing around with his fish probably a snag he's really milking this.

For all it's worth i i think he got oh there he what what is it a jellyfish it's it's it's a chunk of sea enemies about that's got to be a 30 pound 40 pound rock and it's safely released back to the depth oh.

Oh there's something oh  it is a trophy sculpin look at the size of that monster look at the mouth on him all right oh got something bending the rod over here it's a baby hell of it my first halibut.

From a kayak oh there we go oh there that's big enough to eat this is a flounder look at him there he's off dang he's going crazy look at that he got another little baby halibut what's that like your fourth fourth halibut over there.

It burns ah okay this is just sick he's catching hell of it two at a time now i think i need to switch gears and go after some salmon that way if i can see him oh jeez there's like a thousand of them we have a real hodgepodge of fish here that we've.

We've kept a dusky rock fish a greenling a small halibut uh pink salmon and uh there's some sort of cod that's a nice fish man that's a really nice fish well that is a chunk of halibut right there if you guys want to do this make sure to look up just add water alaska.com put a.

Link in the description to their website but uh we better get heading back i don't think i've ever gotten i don't know you're having a really fun time it hurts so bad to carry you oh i gotta put you becca what happens if i take 20 of these at one time.

Oh look at all those berries while we were out fishing becca and the kids apparently had a ball picking raspberries and exploring homer i'm here with my sister-in-law rebecca and we're gonna pick raspberries thank you good job buddy yeah ransom how's it going oh good look at the stem the white tanks.

Are stunned i tried to get a little bit darker so far so good pull it yes high five look at the size whoa that is a monster it smells so good yay yay harvest time treated us well nope nice four pounds oh well the advil is kicking in and i'm.

Loosening up i think we are going to go for a little walk there's a culture family homestead museum down here and uh you can walk down to the beach apparently so we're gonna go check that out my legs are so gummy already that was a fun little walk around the.

Culture homestead they're still actively filming the reality tv show here so they asked us not to film certain buildings and certain things going on but uh yeah just a fun little hike with a walk with the family and we're out of shape and tires so we're going back guys check it out.

There's bainberry here i think it's the most poisonous berry in alaska i knew somebody who tasted one and spit it out and they just ended up like pooping for like three days straight check this out see these white berries here's some more of those berries they start off red.

And then they turn on white but these are deadly poison  look tommy bear see him see the black bear coming back to the cabin after our walk and there was a black bear on the lawn and it just ran off into the woods the decent sized one well that's the.

Second bear i've seen today there are a lot of black bears around here well it's our last day here in the cabin and we're heading back to anchorage and we wake up and guess who's sleeping on our porch okay guys i want to go play with the dog.

Boys are you guys having fun with the dog yeah well we solved the mystery of the dog apparently it belonged to ivan kilter and the grandma came by and gathered the dog we had a nice chat but we need to pack up and get out of here and get heading back to anchorage you.

Guys hungry yeah let's go get some breakfast well we're back at the house and i am getting all my camping gear ready because tomorrow the whole family is going camping we're all packed and loaded in the entire extended family is gonna drive about six hours north to.

Tangle lakes but we're gonna be doing some camping  regular pin this is a nostalgic place for me we grew up camping here almost every summer my other sister my brother my parents pretty much arrow all my family that still lives in alaska is.

Camping here with us so it's gonna be a fun time all right let's see if there's many berry bushes over here how are you eating them blueberries huh that's cool here in the interior of alaska we get a lot of berry bushes blueberries crowberries leanden berries.

Low bush cranberries i mean they're just everywhere look how much berries are in my pot oh man yeah that's good that's good guys these tiny little blackberries these are crowberries that's a decent amount for hand picking and that's how much that.

All right there's a little bit of berries shall we go put this on some cake a lot of evil very vegan  here we go it's a mild italian sausage green beans carrots onions cilantro potatoes that's fabulous thank you oh good oh it's so windy.

Turn them into a jelly and add a nice big cup of clean blueberries you know well it's about 10 o'clock and the kids are to bed me and becca are just gonna go for a little walk mama were you warm i was very bored you guys having fun yeah are you warm yeah.

 from oh this wind is getting nasty it keeps knocking the tents over jumping into bed  there you go well the wind has been wreaking havoc with our camping.

It's been knocking down tents and causing all sorts of problems so we're packing it up a little early it has been blowing 20 to 30 miles per hour pretty much non-stop since we got here and it's been getting worse it was fun but i am sick and tired of the hot dogs flying off my plate.

And you know anyway we're heading home  all right let's check our smoke route see how she's doing there we go that smoker's really going oh yeah all right guys it's the next morning and the salmon's been smoking for 24 hours like i i like jerky style salmon especially since i'm.

Gonna be transporting it back to virginia i want it nice and dry and tight that'll work now you can see the difference here this is the pink salmon and this is the silver salmon this is the pink salmon we caught kayaking out in homer so we're just taking it nice and easy and.

I'm getting ready for camping tomorrow and me and the boys are going to be going on another adventure but yeah we're just having a good time   so  we're here at the primrose campground.

Near seward on the shores of kenai lake and uh we're gonna do a little camping here and my wife and sister are gonna be joining us which is a special treat so we're gonna go ahead and get the campsite set up and get the boys fed and when they show up then we are going to go down the shores of the lake.

And do some survival camping start gathering up firewood and put it in the back of the car  almost dies every time we hit the ground   those tears are real people so i'm gonna try to go do the survival.

Stuff becca's gonna sleep in a tent with a cot and my sister melanie is making an art form out of car camping well it's time for dessert and i brought marshmallows but my sister also brought marshmallows which one do you want i want the big one with the big lemon cookie.

I also brought lemon cookies  yeah you like that bacon is that good that's really good well it's getting late and me and jacob are gonna head off and go build our survival shelter you excited buddy yeah i got one now what do you think should we camp here yep.

You like the tent okay there you go yeah you look cozy there's tickle holes in here look at this this is great jacob are you having fun yeah you are full of energy how many how many marshmallows did you eat it's bedtime.

What a beautiful morning i wake up in my sleeping bag and open my eyes and i see this squirrels are making their little warning chatter they don't do that for moose normally i can hear sticks snapping pretty big ones over there now it's moving over there.

There we go an ugly little spoon dab of butter hey jake come on out of the tent and i'll get you some food okay i got some oatmeal for you well he's not coming out got to go in after him hi jake sit down that's nice and warm isn't it oh.

You want to go see mama now all right let's pack up put the fire out and go see mama well guys did you have a good time yeah yeah well you want to go home and ride on a moose yeah yeah let's do it oh we got whales.

There's a lot of them out there can you please keep it down over there my head hurts oh there's one two they're kind of gray those might be pilot whales i dropped the family off at melanie's place now i'm gonna go borrow some hair clippers i'm getting shaggy oh yeah.

Okay go down so today we got a little bit of a weird activity planned we really wanted a family photo and so we're doing it but with an alaskan twist  we wanted to get a really truly alaskan family photo and so we hired matt here with the.

Photo emporium and he brought hank the moose here and we are going to get photos of the kids on the back of a moose guys are you having a good time  guys that was so much fun if you're ever in anchorage and you want an awesome family photo i'll put a link in.

The description to hank the moose it's another beautiful day and we're packing for another wonderful adventure we're taking the entire family to whittier we're gonna rent a boat are you guys ready little scurvy sea dogs yeah what a beautiful day to go out on the.

Ocean becca are you excited to get hypothermia and seasickness i get seasick  all right let's do this this is it dad's sealing the boat we have rented this 22 foot fishing boat for two whole days we're gonna camp on it and we're gonna.

See glaciers and hopefully whales and seals and maybe catch halibut or rockfish or salmon we can do whatever we want because it's our boat what do you guys think of this  is this beautiful becca you're beautiful becca just had a salmon jump in front of us.

 look boys iceberg ahead there's a glacier that's falling into the ocean over here look at this this is just awesome people rebecca is this cool this is cool i'm glad i came guys should we get some ice for the fish cooler yeah all right let's let's get some.

Glacier ice come in nice glacier ice how does it taste it doesn't taste salty though oh that should do it everyone hold on we're going to cruise around here and see if we can't uh find some fishing oh there's a signal there's something.

Looks like the rain is relenting for just a little bit got a fish jacob take jacob reel him in this oh how is it cute  should we put him back  oh we got one oh man oh oh keep that rod up tom.

That is a beauty that's a king salmon buddy that's my first one great cake salmon man oh so much fish slime shall we put them in the cooler yeah or put them on glacier ice high five dub were you guys hungry yeah all right let's get some dinner out.

Here okay we've got we've got mres for dinner santa fe rice and beans vanilla pudding dessert powder all right got our mres let those warm up how you like the ravioli oh tom you got one it's a card a card yes i caught a card oh it's pooping it's pooping you got a big one tom.

That's a lean cod what it's a very yummy fish called the lean cod look at it look at the teeth on him we have had an absolute ball but it's about nine o'clock so i am going to find a spot over there to anchor up and uh we're gonna get the kids ready for bed but uh this adventure.

Isn't half over you guys all cuddled in yeah okay good night okay be good good morning nathan good morning did you sleep well yeah well everyone's kind of taking their time getting up which is just fine so i'm gonna pull up anchor and kind of move spots.

And do some fishing while everyone wakes up little baby rock fish oh there we go oh look at the spots on that thing that oh it's a dusky rock fish we're gonna try a little jog through a bit of open water to try to get to some other glaciers and uh we'll kind of see what happens.

We've got about two foot waves here which ain't much for the boat  it's a little bouncy here i'm not sure how long becca's gonna be okay with this so we're gonna drop some rigs down quickly but we were thinking.

Oh that's the biggest irish lord of the trip that is the monstrous irish lord what he just threw up an octopus i think we need to put up these fishing rods and go look at some glaciers there are so many otters here i can see dozens of otters look at this oh check it out we got all these seals.

Resting on the glaciers well that was pretty cool guys you got your own little snuggle party going on over there snuggle party well it's been a fun trip but it's time to give the boat back and get it cleaned up so i've got some fish to clean.

All right we made it safe and sound back to the dock i didn't wreck or break anything okay who had fun on the boat  all right guys come on come on all right we're just pulling out all of our camping gear from yesterday getting it dried and cleaned and then we're.

Packing up food and getting everything repacked and going out again tomorrow well we got a lot done today but now we are taking the kids over to their cousin's house so me and becca can go on a date an anniversary date today we are going out to eat coven style.

A schnitzel here with finger potatoes lingenberry sauce mega got some rigatoni now we're sitting here at potter's marsh and we're watching a family of swans eating while we enjoy dessert and second dinner what about second breakfast cinnamon texas roadhouse roll with.

Cinnamon butter how you like that i got a pavlova for dessert from the south side grill oh that is a large brownie 19 years we're up early and at it again we've washed packed dried organized sorted and bought everything we need to do we're heading down to seward and we are.

Going to go camping on an island all right guys we're here i love you thanks for driving us happy university happy anniversary  i like them.

All right thanks guys there goes our boat man that's a ride home you think we're gonna be okay yeah all right guys shall we explore a little bit hey guys look at this this is the egg of a giant scape oh let's see this is the skeleton of a sea urchin.

Caramel seeing you see look how he's going whoa there's a place we could build a build a fire and put a tent actually really done well guys what do you think is this a nice little place to get out of the rain here you guys go it's been raining here for four days straight.

So everything is soaking wet so i'm gonna bust out all my mad skills here to see if i can build a fire in this rain here pick that up and put it under the tarp buddy good job buddy can you pile this with the other dry firewood.

There we go  nice reference tom got a little bit of a rain awning over our fire to keep the rain from putting it out what's in my tea kettle i'm making the water boy wait a minute what's in my bottle.

It's more kool-aid you guys are just like spooning it out like little drug addicts okay no more kool-aid no more kool-aid we're gonna make tonkatsu ramen man um we're gonna walk the beach and do a little beach combing all the way to the end of the spit.

Dude that's a pretty good good-looking mekong it's a semi-con yeah that's a bone look at that i thought that was a barnacle no that's a bone   yeah i say we go get our sleeping bags and matt's all pumped up and ready to go.

All right guys it's bedtime well good morning according to my phone this is six mile per hour winds and 50 degree weather neither one of those things are true the boys have gone deep buried real deep yeah it's windy foreign yeah that's fun.

Good  wait that's mine that's yours you guys want some spam in the tent you guys hang out here for a little bit this wind is cold and aggressive but i gotta start packing up here the boat's gonna pick us up in a little bit.

Watch out tom watch out go get your boots well the boat's a little late cause the weather but they're here they didn't forget us wake up but yeah there you go well the ride back to miller's landing was a little a little exciting there we got about three foot waves out in.

Resurrection bay we're going to try to go get checked into our our rental house and just hang out and enjoy seward for a little bit all right this this is cool let's get our stuff in and i'll start recharging gopro batteries because.

I burned through them all right guys we got pizza oh we got a euro pizza and an everything pizza oh hey you guys are here well guys tomorrow we are going to try to rent a boat and take it out fishing so today we're going to go do the safety walkthrough.

And orientation and everything and we'll see how it goes all right and thank you all right have a good night we just got done checking out the boat and walk down here and this is where everyone's snagging for fish i'll be real quiet like this until a school salmon comes in and then it's just bam.

Bam bam every other person's getting it it's just it's on and then it's off all right we need we need to get going home get good night's sleep guys all right guys who wants to go catch some fish yay  yeah we're here in the small boat harbor.

Of seward alaska just putting our way out to the ocean and this part makes me so nervous it's like the high school parking lot this is where most the crashes happened all right i think it's time to batten down the hatches oh there he is what is it straight up under the.

There you go dusky rockfish what do you got you got a dusky rock fish  all right you got one tom there's a quill back tom that's playing more like uh how is it yeah hell of it there tommy you got that really hard you're close you're close.

There we go yeah they hurt puffins tommy so many puffins puppets yeah you got a good fight on your hand it's at least we got lead cod nice that's a pretty good one too yeah they're long they're tasty okay nate you got this this is a pretty good sized one.

What you snapped it in my face there you go that's a lean [ __ ] buddy that's a nice one you take this take the orange rod wow the halibut rod just got crushed  yeah there's a little little parasite that goes on the tongue of the fish.

Nice cod that's fish and chips right there baby here good oh that's awesome look at that eyeball that's awesome tom he's so small all right let's get him back let's get him this bullet poland you got a salmon look at the color on there that's a beauty nice salmon buddy that's really pretty.

Oh man we're getting it all today yeah something's going on here i'm oh my god there we go nice cod oh i got a red one it's a nice yellow eye yeah i got a nice fight going on there that's the problem you guys want to try another spot just try to mix it up a little bit.

Oh look at that little pull up get about four chase it back up yeah right under the boat my brother keeps nailing the little juvenile salmon a little a little bigger we pulled a few out of this spot but let's try another spot i got something big here oh it's another.

Lean cot oh that's a nice clean cut it does not bend it like a green link keep a little tension but jen be gentle and then look at that that's cool man what is that oh that's another rock fish see that one in a nice fight there i got it here.

Whoa that's a that's the biggest yellow eye of the day well guys we tore it up we caught more fish than we could even count and i think we caught 13 species of fish man that's pretty cool anyway we got to get this back to the dock we got a lot of flaying to do.

That's mine holy mackerel look at that pile of fish that's a nice orange one 15 20 21 okay we kept 21 we probably left at least that might be at least that many i think we're gonna eat some nice fish tomorrow guys is that fun yeah it was a blast yeah.

All right guys we're at alaska toy rental in palmer and i just got a utv here well six person enclosed cab utv perfect for crappy weather like today how's it going good to see you man where did my sons go we're here with the how to alaska family and the boys are having a ball.

We visited last winter and had a good time so the boys are really stoked to be back tommy upstairs upstairs atvs we go we have a lot of awesome things planned today we're gonna go atving off into the bush we're gonna look for fossils we might get to do some gold mining.

Too you get real nervous close to the longest but it's a good one we made it are you ready you see that a bobcat just ran across the road that's the leaks we're in the bushes i'm so glad you guys came along.

Here tommy windshield wiper activate there we go all right guys you ought to look for fossils oh yeah look at that it's right there there look at right here oh yeah that's a big one whoa that's a huge one that was huge.

 that does look like a fossilized olympics i found one that isn't broken at all oh yeah that one's in great shape oh look behind you so let's see yeah look at that that's cool oh this is one of the most gorgeous.

Places i've ever hunted for fossils isn't this great all the i'm having a fossils time is so much fun check it out we have some gold mines up ahead these guys are working excavators and sloosh boxes i mean in two hours really good.

Oh there it is that that's pretty five grand would have been digging out of this [ __ ] oh my goodness oh that's cool all right guys hop in one time all right guys you ready to find some more fossils is the big rocks roll to the bottom yeah but they hang up in the trees.

Oh yeah that's cool yes reach for me my son you're almost there you gotta do it oh you did it you're safe just take jumps and and then it's easier to stop yourself just go and hop like a bunny yes tommy's gonna do it hop like a buddy.

Hop hop tom's down okay careful don't get going too fast stop nade stop oh check it out you find one here we go this is what we're looking for hopefully i can get it without busting it oh too greedy oh you can see all the guts of it oh.

Awesome look at the calcite in there yeah let's see look at the crystals look at the krause of crystals jake found it it's this is no jake's cool fossil look at that that is way cool look at that beautiful absolutely beautiful oh you can see all the chambers.

That's a great one and see the crystals growing inside the shell  wow here we go again all right hold on tight everybody guys there's a creepy boss hey if you see a nail grab a nail look at the engine.

Oh i would love to know the back story of how this thing ended up all the way back here oh look it's an army bus it says us army bus for official use only all right all aboard the school of hard knocks is now in session i hope so.

 we're coming up on jake's gold claim that's a nice setup yeah look at that was awesome yeah now we're talking i need you to squish this bag up mix up all that dough in the bag.

Look at that oh when it's really up everyone wants some non spiders nice and warm better you know why i know the best part we have had such a ball getting out here but it is late i'm exhausted and i will see you guys in the morning.

Oh it's cold for tonight's battles if i was we're getting ready to do some gold mining here on jake's gold claim but one of the biggest obstacles to mining gold is getting the wetsuit on jake's just a little bit fluffy like me yeah i did that for like two seconds and.

My hands are frozen oh look at that look that golden i found oh yeah look at that there's a bunch right there you gotta be pretty gentle with it oh my that's impressive well there you go about an hour hour and a half of dredging and about a hundred dollars worth of.

Gold well the boys and i have had an absolute ball hanging out with jake and if you guys want to see more great outdoor adventures that are family-friendly check out their channel i'll put a link in the description below but we've got to get headed home.

And we've got a great trail ahead of us i'm really excited for the ride back would you guys like to do this again sometime yeah the boys have decided that we should name the utv appa after the flying buffalo on avatar this is oppa my flying bicycle you are fast and furious ride or die.

Remember we didn't get rained on last night but apparently up in the valley above us it did get rain the rivers are a little bit dirty and a little bit higher than when we crossed the first time so it's a little bit of a clincher getting back home.

Oh you were wearing your rain pants yep i'm glad we had the window shut on that  one   foreign  all right tommy let me give you a turn.

Okay yep  right  all right jake man it was a pleasure oh my goodness you're more mud than boy dirty dirty little boy let's go return this rental and go see mama it's our last day here in.

Alaska and what a beauty me and my dad are gonna take the boys out to go get some donuts and uh we're gonna do a little adventures with the family and we're gonna go out with the bank hey boys then tom you have a wonderful day i think those.

Are make a lot of sense we got mango pineapple chocolate with some sort of caramel oh these are huge coconut in one hand and a mango in the other that's you're double wielding it good guys you want to do a little exploring yeah well we got the whole crew in the car.

And we're going to head off to gerdwood we're going to go to a zoo and we're going to go to a zoo we're here in gerdwood looking for some lunch and there's a japanese food truck i'm going really hot on the inside all right thank you very much dried tuna fish mayonnaise soy sauce and little doughy ball with a chunk of.

Octopus inside anyone want one oh there you go it's got the octopus you got an octopus tentacle in your mouth oh you can see the little section cups and everything the octopus kind of goes good the octopus tastes like one bit let's go get some grilled cheese sandwiches now.

To finish off lunch  that is a good grilled cheese sandwich that's sourdough bread there  all right  let's go check out the zoo all right we're at the alaska wildlife.

Conservation center it's a little private zoo just in between gerdwood and portage we're gonna check it out we've got a two mile loop here where we just kind of cruise around and uh we can stop and see animals come on jade  see they're most dark.

There's some wood bison over there those are uh elk there's a caribou right there by the fence it was more fun than i expected i like that it was a drive-through oh we have so much packing to do this thing is absolutely chocked full to the gills.

With fish and i still have to give away two bags of salmon to my sister oh it's like our luggage just vomited on my sister's floor look at this jacob you gonna miss that melanie it's hard to believe six weeks is over isn't it really fast it went by really fast.

Oh look there's all these moths in here holy crap the whole back seat is covered in grain moths i better drive with the windows down becca you're gonna like this hello thousands and thousands of green bots inside oh look what got delivered while we were gone.

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