Day Trip to Yukon Island

Comedian and novelist Bob Smith invited a few friends to Yukon Island to walk the sea floor during the extreme minus tide and to see the artifacts of the First Alaskans who lived on the island 3,000 years ago. Above is Elephant Rock (for scale, look at the person standing in the arch on the left), which revealed a technicolor world of sea stars, crabs, kelp, algae, anemone, mussels, and severed octopus tentacles thought to be leftovers from an otter's breakfast. Yukon Island is a National Historic Landmark site for its dig and is generally closed to the public, though it has a serene center which you can rent for educational retreats. Bob's first visit there eight years ago led to the endearing archeology details in his wonderfully fun novel Selfish and Perverse, which is also learned and knowing on hot threeways (and their emotional fallout). The items below date from 500 BC; the wavy layers of rock were formed 180 or 200 million years ago. Smiling Bob's next novel is The Other Man, "the story of a 46 year old man who time travels back to 1986 and teams up with his younger self to prevent the suicide of their sister and prevent George W. Bush from becoming President."