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Robert's Trip to
Nuksuk
"One day it was such a nice
day in
Marshall, I asked Matt if he
wanted to go on a boat ride."
"Where to?" Matt
asked.
"To Nuksuk maybe," I
said.
"Okay," Matt
said.
"Then I told Matt to call
Chris and JB and ask them if they wanted to come with us to
Nuksuk. And sure enough they both agreed. So Matt and I got
ready and ate a little and then went to pick up Chris and
JB. Then we were on our way."
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"When we got to Nuksuk we took the first slough on the
left. We stopped at the first bend and changed the gas tank because
the other one was empty. I asked the boys if they wanted to check
around in here and they said yes, so we went on our way. A few bends
into the slough we saw a young bull moose standing in the middle of
the narrow slough. I hit the throttle to go faster so we could get
a better look. We stopped about ten feet away from it and finally
it ran up the bank. It was just trotting along the bank so we decided
to follow it. We ended up going along side it for about two minutes
until it finally ran into the trees. I told the boys that it might
come out on the other side of the slough so we zoomed over to the
other side. It didn't come out but we saw the Game Warden fly over
us with a float plane. I told Mall, Chris and JB that we were lucky
that we didn't shoot at the moose or else we would've probably gone
to jail. We continued riding in the slough until we got to some lilly
pads. Then we had to turn around and head back out because it was
getting too shallow."
"When we got to the main
slough in Nuksuk we stopped, and I asked Mall, Chris and JB
if they wanted to check out Reindeer Slough which was quite
a ways inside Nuksuk. The boys agreed so we didn't waste any
time. When we got to Reindeer Slough we started to rod and
reel. We didn't catch anything even though there were lots
of signs of fish. All we caught were snags and
weeds!"
"It was getting late so we
started on our way out of Nuksuk. We were on our third bend
when JB saw a big black bear. We didn't see it for long
though because it went into the trees too fast. We zoomed
over to the other side of the slough and waited for it to
come out. It looked like Matt, Chris and JB really wanted to
catch a bear because they were excited. I told them we'd
better be on our way if we wanted to make it to Marshall
before it got too dark. I promised the boys that we would
see another bear going out even though I wasn't really sure.
Coincidentally we did see another black bear a couple more
bends out and Matt, Chris and JB shot at it with their
rifles. But I think they all missed it by a mile because
there were no blood trails in the grass. Finally we got
tired of looking for it, and we were getting sleepy besides,
so we started on our long way home."
By: Robert
Owletuck
Interviewed by: Chris
Fitka
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Marshall
Cultural Atlas
