Fire From The Sea & Fresh Caught Fish for Breakfast

Making fire and cooking fish on the coast in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I got a lot of help from the ocean for this one.

This beautiful coastal ecosystem varies a bit, but extends for hundreds of miles from Nothern California, up into Canada and SE Alaska and offers a bounty of amazing materials and resources that the native people put to use in incredibly ingenious ways.

Between the lush Sitka Spruce and Western Red Cedar forests, and the bounty of the ocean, nature has a lot to give here and I am so grateful to be able to enjoy it.

As the ocean pounds the shoreline in the winter storms, some of the forest ends up falling into the sea, where a vast variety of materials are smashed and processed down into different sizes against the rocks before it is tossed effortlessly above the high water mark. Everything from twigs and giant old growth logs, to marine materials and flotsam from Asia end up in these piles, and make life a lot easier than it would be a few miles inland.

I have been camping on this coast since I was a little boy, and have been fortunate enough to spend at least a couple of weeks a year out there for the last several years.. It’s like home away from home.

Questions, comments, and suggestions are always welcome and appreciated.

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Western Red Cedar Driftwood: Hearth, Spindle, Tinder Bundle, Kindling, Fuel
Bull Kelp: Bow Drill Cordage
Sitka Spruce: Resin for Stone Bearing Block Lubrication, Fresh Needle Tips for Fish Seasoning, & Fuel

Skunk Cabbage: Wrap for steam cooking fish on hot rocks.

Redtail Surfperch: Breakfast

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Knife: Mora Stainless Clipper
Bait: Berkley Gulp Worms
Weight 1 oz Pyramid Sinker

Music: Last of the Mohicans by Luca Stricagnoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kbv1OpIpaA