Spawning in the Adams River

 

I thought I would tell you some of the

highlight's of my trip.  Now my friend wouldn't call this

a highlight, but at about 2.00 am one morning

her dog started barking, and it was a

black bear lumbering down her driveway to

the lower acreages that have fruit trees.  Her house

is the path that they take to get to the trees.  Now my

friend doesn't see that as a highlight, and If I lived

there nor would I.  The second highlight was

seeing the salmon spawning on the Adams River.

Every year the salmon whose time it is, get

like a calling to mate, and somehow when they

are swimming deep in the Ocean, they know

they have to go back to where they were

first spawned.  After they have laid there eggs

in the gravel of the Adams River they die.  They

float along the river so that the bears, deer and whatever else

can eat them, and the cycle goes on.  You are not allowed to fish

in this river while all this is happening.  Now my friend

says when its at its peak you cant see the river for all the

red salmon and the smell is awful.  We were there a few

days early,  but still a sight to see.  Ok that is my

science lecture for today.