Hyder seek for a week

This is where we spent alot of our week in Hyder, here and at the

bear bridge,

this is Diana's place,

THE BUS Diana cooks the food and her husband catches it, he say's if he wasn't out fishing we'd all be eating

hamburgers




It snowed over 40 feet last year, Diana is only open in the summer for the tourist season, don't think there are many people here for the winter but locals




It's just an old bus, sold to her by two kids who decided to go snow boarding instead

Here's Diana, most all the seafood she cooks, they caught it, she makes her batter, tarter sauce and Mermaid Chowder, with halibut and salmon, out of this world!

Cindy and I sat out in front everyday, that way we could keep an eye on Gracie, chewing on the windows and all, and got to talk to the locals and learned some juicy gossip, you could eat inside on picnic tables

They took the bus seats out and you sit on them in front, notice the baggies full of water, she claims that

flies don't like water so it keeps them away,

didn't see any flies so maybe it works

Cindy had a Johnnies, 2 halibut and 6 shrimp, I stuck with 4 halibuts, best I have ever had, we ate the same thing for a week

She also sells fish and smokes fish, so she is very busy, but just takes it all in stride, there is just her

You are looking at Hyder's street, potholes galore, Stewart, which is British Columbia is very well paved and clean, one of the locals told me they didn't want the road fixed, the potholes keep people from driving to fast, and if they fixed it they would bring in police next and they don't want that

I am half in Alaska and half in Canada,

when you go into to Alaska there is no big deal

but when you go out you have to go through Canadian Customs,

doesn't make a bit of sense, there is only one road in and out,

one of the locals said that Canada said they wanted to do it because the people in Hyder were getting rich selling tobacco and liquor to the Canadians, she just laughed and said,

do any of us look like we are

rich???

You couldn't go 20 mph or you'd break your neck on the roof of your car going over the potholes, Hyder is just the other side of the mountain from Ketchican

This is the border crossing, I guess in the winter there is no activity, so Canada wanted to close the border, but Hyder said, no way, 24 hours a day every day, they had promised them

I saw this heron off the side of the road, thought it was pretty

I saw the sign "We have Tom Yocky Dulcimers" and had no idea by the time I had walked out of there I would have one also, it is beautiful, has a moose on it, Moosehead is it's name, and Carolyn gave Cindy and I a lesson on how to play it, so watch out, I am doing a

Christmas Show

This is Carolyn, she said she came to Hyder 27 years ago on a vacation and never left, she is telling me about her husband who is a logger and can tell the sound of a tree before it falls, he goes into forests and marks trees for musical instument makers, he went down the road to see a spruce that fell in a storm and that is what these Dulcimers are made out of

She makes it sing

This is all there is to the Hyder boat ramp, Diana's husband docks his boat here

Can't camp on it you can drive right up to it

This are the remnants of buildings that were build on the estuary

Kind of reminds you of a cemetery doesn't it, and yes we have the cemetery pictures to go

This is the General Store, the front door, kind of direct