00:00Luke, Tom and Nate here at the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and today we're at
00:08Miller's Landing just a little south of Seward, Alaska and we're about to get on
00:13this boat to go out there. We're gonna be camping and fishing, exploring for a
00:18couple days. Miller's Landing is one of several water taxis here in Seward and
00:22they'll take you, your kayaks, your gear, whatever, drop you off various locations
00:27around the bay and it's really affordable way to get out and explore
00:31kind of off the grid, out in the wilderness areas in Prince William Sound
00:36and Resurrection Bay and that's exactly what we're gonna be doing today.
00:47So Tom, you're on whale watching duty? Oh that's pretty cool man. A couple weeks
00:53ago me and Nate took a water taxi out to Cain's Head to explore a secret
00:58underground World War II abandoned army base. Did a video on that. We'll put a link
01:02in the description below.
01:23There we go guys, that's the island we're going to be on.
01:39Are you excited? Yeah. We're here bud. Wake up.
01:47Enjoy. Oh, thank you. Nathan, can I give you the fishing rods?
01:53You got those?
01:55Good to go? You got everything? Alright, thanks guys.
02:01There goes our boat man, that's our ride home. You think we're gonna be okay? Yeah.
02:05Let's go find a spot.
02:10All right, we're here on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay in Prince William Sound
02:16in Alaska. We are really in it. This island is steep and rugged and just
02:23full of mountains and cliffs like that and there's a little spit of land that
02:28goes out in the ocean and that's where we're gonna see if we can't camp and
02:33maybe catch some fish. Look at this. Oh yeah, big old jellyfish. All right guys,
02:39shall we explore a little bit? Let's see what's on this island. That's one of
02:45those tiger striped ones. Look at that one. Oh yeah, this is a funky type of
02:52seaweed. Look at that. I've seen this before. Not sure what it's called, but
02:57it's creepy looking. Rotten bull kelp bulb. That's a fish? No, that's a bulb on a piece of kelp.
03:07This is a piece of bull kelp. It's all rotten. Yeah, but when it's not rotten, you
03:15can eat it. But you see it's got a big, it's got the roots and the big bulb and
03:18then on the end is a ball that makes it float up in the water and it gets
03:24long. It gets really long. That's a small one. Just saw a fish jump out of the
03:28water right there. Oh, you guys found another jellyfish? Well, there's one. Oh,
03:32here's a jellyfish here. Oh, this is the biggest one we've ever seen. Look at this
03:39sucker. He's huge. Yeah, he looks pretty dead. Hey guys, look at this. This is the egg of a
03:59giant skate. These things get like five, six feet across, but they're full-grown.
04:03Yeah, look at him. See, look how he's going. Swim little guy, swim. This is another egg.
04:21Yeah, it looks like a baby hooligan. The ocean's right over there on the other
04:36side of that berm. There's this big, huge tidal pool right here. This whole thing.
04:42Oh, let's see. This is the skeleton of a sea urchin. All the spines are falling off. That's
04:55cool. This is a place we could build a fire and put a tent. All right, guys,
05:03we'll get a fire started and the camp put up and then we'll do a little fishing here. See
05:08if we can't catch maybe a halibut or something.
05:38Well guys, what do you think? Is this a nice little place to get out of the rain? Here you
05:43guys go. All your leftover from last night. Me and mommy went on a date to Texas Roadhouse last
05:48night. We just need a fire now, don't we? All right, let's see if daddy can build a fire in
05:56this rain. It's been raining here for four days straight, so everything is soaking wet. So I'm
06:02going to bust out all my mad skills here to see if I can build a fire in this rain. All right.
06:10The inside is pretty dry, so let's get some of these limbs.
06:17Nathan, you gathering water? Yeah. That'll be good for your cup of noodle.
06:35When everything is wet like this, it really pays off to be able to split some logs. This
06:49log is soggy and rotten on the outside, but dry as a bone on the inside. So if we can split that,
06:54we can get to dry wood. We just got to make sure our wood doesn't get wet in between the time we
06:59split it and catch it on fire. So we're going to split it and immediately stack it under the tarp.
07:04Pick that up and put it under the tarp, buddy. Good job, buddy. Come here.
07:27Boy, can you pile this with the other dry firewood?
07:36Well, the rain has stopped for just a second or two, so I'm going to try to build the fire now,
07:45and hopefully we have enough kindling. All right, we're going to put some shredded up
07:52jute inside these wood shavings. There we go. Nice reference, Tom. Here, just give me a second,
08:09buddy. Because everything's wet, everything has to dry out before it can light up,
08:23so you pile up your wood around your fire close and let it dry out. Unfortunately,
08:27when you pile up this much wood, you start to smother the fire, so you need to put blow
08:31on it a lot and fan it. Little bits of plastic like this nylon fishing rope, though, can be
08:38good fire starter in wet conditions, because that'll melt and burn for a long, long time.
08:46Well, it started to rain again, and I want to protect my fire a little bit,
08:49so I'm going to build an awning for my fire.
09:00Got a little bit of a rain awning over our fire to keep the rain from putting it out.
09:08I think it's time to start fishing. I would love nothing more than to catch a big,
09:17fat halibut or a rockfish or, frankly, anything. I'd be excited. Supposedly,
09:23there is a shipwrecked barge within casting distance over there. We're going to see if
09:28we can't fish around that. Made a little dropper loop with some 60-pound mono, put a big old
09:47four-aught circle hook on it. We're going to check that out there. Got some herring here.
09:52When you're casting long distances, your bait can get messed up, so I'm going to use
09:56this little bait button here. Basically, you slide that onto the point, and you put it just
10:02like that. Keeps things where they should be. The bait won't fly off the hook as easy.
10:07Oh, that's deep. That was falling for a long time.
10:26All right, got two rods out. One of them's bombed way out there,
10:30and the silver one's a lot closer. I don't know if we need to be out all that far. I'm seeing
10:35herring jump within a rock throw distance of the shore. We'll just see what happens.
10:47There you go. I caught it. Oh, that's warm.
10:55There you go. Guys, what do you think? Are you having a good camp out so far?
10:58Yeah. What's in my tea kettle?
11:02I'm making a lot of Kool-Aid. Wait a minute. What's in my bottle?
11:08It's more Kool-Aid. Let me see your fingers.
11:13I think you may have a Kool-Aid problem. Well, we got a little break in the rain,
11:18so I think we'd better set up the tent. A little bit of a level spot that isn't covered in rocks.
11:31Have you guys gotten into the Kool-Aid mix? Let me see your hands, Nathan. Oh my goodness.
11:40You guys are just spooning it out like little drug addicts. Okay, no more Kool-Aid. No more Kool-Aid.
11:54What you got there, Nate? Ramen noodles.
11:57You like cup of noodle? Yeah, my favorite.
12:00Well, my rods have been in the water for a couple hours now and I keep checking my baits and
12:04untouched. Not even crab marks. So that's a little disconcerting. So I'm trying to recast in
12:11different spots and see if maybe I can find like a little reef or something or a seaweed bed where
12:15maybe there's some fish. All right, we're gonna make Sapporo Ichiban. We're gonna make Tonkatsu
12:23Ramen, man.
12:45I'm gonna go nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. Use your knives.
12:53Well, we got all the firewood chopped and dinner finished and the weather actually
13:02is half decent. So we're gonna walk the beach and do a little beach combing all the way to
13:07the end of the spit. Dude, that's a pretty good looking Mikan. We could totally wash it off and
13:18eat it. I think we could. It feels perfect. It's a sea Mikan. Yeah, that's a bone. Look at that.
13:28No, that's a bone.
13:42Look at those mountains. Aren't those something?
13:44This island is called Fox Island and it's called Fox Island because about 120 years ago a guy let
13:52a whole bunch of foxes loose on the island to try to raise them. What he'd do is just let them be
13:58free range and he had a big pen where he'd dump all their food every day and the foxes would get
14:06used to coming there for the food. And when it came time to harvest them, he'd skip a few feedings
14:11and when they were nice and hungry he'd dump a bunch of food in the pen
14:16and then shut the door and there you go.
14:22Oh, oh yeah. Look at that. Look at.
14:28This is nice. I say we go get our sleeping bags and mats all pumped up and ready to go.
14:41Man, look at this view. This weather's really turned the corner.
14:49You're a transformer. What do you got on your sleeve?
14:52These are my guns. Oh, I see. Those are your guns, huh?
14:58I think this looks a little bit like one of my tent pegs.
15:05All right, guys, it's bedtime. Well, check it out. I got the boys a new air mattress. I got
15:10the Therm-a-Rest NeoAir Uberlite and do you guys like that? Yeah, this is my favorite kind
15:16of mattress ever. It's so puffy. Yeah, and they're kid size. I mean, this one's a little short for
15:23Tommy, but it's the perfect size for Nate. Yeah, yeah. Your feet barely hang off, but that's not
15:29a big deal. Well, the boys are in bed and I'm straightening up and doing some dishes and
15:35yeah, just having a great day.
15:47Well, good morning. According to my phone,
15:50this is six mile per hour winds and 50 degree weather. Neither one of those things are true.
15:57It's cold and windy right now. The boys have gone deep, buried real deep.
16:08Yeah, it's windy. All right, I need to get things ready for the boys. I need to build
16:14a different type of shelter. The wind's the problem today, not the rain.
16:26So
16:57I'm just going to make some hot chocolate and breakfast. It'll take a little while for the
17:10pancakes to get ready. You want me to just come back here and let you know when they're ready?
17:15Okay, I will. All right, guys, I'm going to show you something that's really important if you're
17:19going to get into wilderness foraging. Check this out. This right here is a plant called yarrow.
17:25It's a medicinal herb and a seasoning and perfectly fine to eat.
17:32This right here is water hemlock and it's one of the most poisonous plants in Alaska. This can
17:39kill you. Here's the yarrow. Here's the water hemlock. Side by side. Dang, that's close, isn't it?
17:46The way you tell is the leaves. Yarrow has these light feathery leaves. Water hemlock
17:54looks like carrot. Here's another example of water hemlock. You can see how it's usually
18:00there's multiple buds on one branch. Yarrow doesn't do that. Both water hemlock and yarrow
18:07are both kind of fragrant and aromatic, okay, but they smell different. Yarrow smells a little bit
18:13more like medicine and water hemlock smells like fresh cut celery, but it's close. If you don't
18:20know what you're doing, it's a real easy plant to get confused.
18:39That's fun.
18:50So
19:15that's mine. That's yours.
19:21Oh, yeah.
19:33Yeah. Here. You guys want some spam in the tent?
19:41You guys hang out here for a little bit.
19:43This wind is cold and aggressive, so I got the boys just hanging out in the tent so that they
19:49aren't miserable, but I got to start packing up here. The boat's going to pick us up in a little
19:54bit and it might take a little while to get everything done with this wind, so better get started.
20:12Watch out, Tom. Watch out. Don't get your boots wet.
20:28Well, the boat's a little late because of the weather, but they're here. They didn't forget us.
20:36Yeah, you got it.
20:55Tommy, you getting wet?
21:06Wake up, bud. There you go.
21:20Listen, we guys, we had a great time. Did you guys have fun? Yeah.
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