Today, we got news from our friends, the Bedards from Florida / Illinois that visited with us last fall during the Silver Salmon season. They have always been "dog" people and fell in love with "Dutch" during their stay with us. Since then, they have been on a quest to find a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. They were relentless in their search, filling out the forms and paperwork involved in adopting a puppy from several kennels. It took them several attempts at finding the puppy they wanted. Today they got the news that they will be able to get the puppy that they had chosen from a kennel in Iowa. This is a picture of "Harley", their new puppy and they will pick him up in three weeks on their migration north to Illinois. He is a cutie and has given me a bad case of "puppy" love. We look forward to watching him grow up and perhaps some day, Dutch and Harley will have the opportunity to play together.

Since I missed the King Salmon Derby due to it being on Easter Sunday after being cancelled on Saturday. However, the M/V CPearl did fish the derby with the rest of the derby crew but it was slow fishing as we have found out on our practice runs. Tried fishing today, but once again the marine conditions were a little rough. Snapped these pictures as we trolled past the Anchor Point Lighthouse.

You have to admire a man who is the strongest Commander In Chief of the free world and still believes in Easter Bunny.