4th of July rain brings a 4th of July rainbow
Hyder HillbilliesSo I don’t always love Hyder. July 4th went well enough. My dad and I manned the hotdog stand for a while and watched the parade. After pouring buckets the hour before, the rain lifted to a light drizzle and maybe 100 people came out to watch. This year’s parade was fronted, as usual, by the RCMP. There were a whole slew of ‘ugly vehicles’ (it’s not hard to find cars, trucks, or vans with dilapidation issues around here and several always find themselves in the Grand Parade), and there was one, exactly one, float. A float of hillbillies at that. (To be fair, it was pretty awesome that they tied their float into the Glacier Inn’s Hillbilly Hoedown theme for the evening.)
After the Grand Prize had been awarded to the hillbillies, people went home, went to the bar, went to watch the bears and it was a quiet evening until 1:30-ish when I was woken up by engines racing and a loud thud. I waited for the power to flick off and then I thought I was dreaming. Silence. Shouting. Yelling. Screaming. The blue-white flicker of the RCMP lights. The rest is hearsay, gossip, first-hand, and second-hand accounts. Five teens (2 from Hyder and 3 from Stewart), 2 vehicles (and SUV and a small car), and alcohol. As far as I have heard, the Hyder kids were flown to the hospital in Ketchikan and the Stewart kids medivacked to Prince Rupert. The Alaska State Troopers arrived this morning.
In more positive happenings, there’s been a good-sized bald eagle hanging out down on the dock. I got up early-ish this morning to go take some photos of it. I wish I had a lens that would have allowed me to get closer to it. The eagle was perched on top of the dock pilings just looking out at the canal.
The eagle is on the right-most piling
A closer view
Looking down the Hyder dock
Daisies near the horse barn
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