The Adams River was glistening in the sun today. The water is clear and high. There were thousands of people along the banks. Japanese, French, Italian, Germany, Korean words were mingled with the rushing water. The people here say these fish just moved in about a week ago. Millions more are still coming. The peak is estimated to be about two weeks away.
The fish are pairing up, the females flirting with the males, swishing their tails across their mate’s faces, nuzzling. The living are swimming among the dead. There are enormous chinooks surfacing and powering up the river with spray off their fins.
This town is happy, people flooding through spending money. Already these fish have provided a $500 million commercial fishery. They are moving 45 million kg of nutrients up the river. This is really something to see, hasn’t been seen for 100 years.
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Oh how wonderful to be there! One of the most sacred places I have been in my life… I lay my heart down like the salmon, so we may continue into perpetuity.
I pray that the Chinooks will one day again spawn again up the Slocan river, a tributary of the once mighty Columbia.
The Slocan will again quiver with egg and milt, bears, weasels, eagels, ospreys will once again eat their fill. Next years salmon fry be fed by their parents’ bodies, and the long hungry land will suck up the marine nutrients delivered so high up in these mountains away from the deep ocean.
Oh, how I pray the Adams River will remain the altar of the Creators Miracle, how I pray for the salmons’ return!
Much love to you!