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August 4th 2011
Recently home from a trip to Alaska and British Columbia delivering a 60 foot Flemming powerboat to its home outside Seattle. Had a wonderful wilderness experience aboard a beautiful motor vessel. Always a thrill seeing new places.
April 5th 2011
Snow is covering the high county right now. Soon the thaw will open up all the little rivulets that feed the main Middle Fork. Fish in record numbers are swimming upstream. The spring bloom will burst upon the scene in a few weeks. Time to get those boots on and go hiking. What are you doing this summer? Want to swim with wild summer steelhead in one of the wildest places in the United States? What are we waiting for?
March 10th 2011
The lure of the wilds calls to many of us. Daylight Ducks is dedicated to preserving, conserving, and enjoying the pristine wilderness areas left in Northern California. Please join us in our efforts to save wild California.
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The old man saw that he judged well the endurance and interest of Little Boy. He closed the history with the proper and traditional ending. "From the east and from the west, may the Daylight Ducks come quickly and bring the daylight soon."
Little Boy was almost asleep, but the ending had interested him. In a sleepy voice he asked, "What are the Daylight Ducks, Grandfather? And why do you always end the same way?"
"This is our way of ending. It makes the daylight come quickly. Daylight Ducks are bright shiny white ducks whose every move produces a little light. Then, as the dawn creeps over the hills to the East, they vanish. Very few people have ever seen them. They come only at certain seasons."
The old man stretched and yawned. "Now it is late." Then he turned to the youngster. "Come, it's time to sleep."
From Deep Valley: A History of the Pomo of the Ukiah Area by B.W. & E.G. Aginsky
© 1967 Stein and Day, Publishers, New York