Days Off

I got another 2 days off while they ran more casing in the well at work. The first day I spent fishing down on the Owens River, and the second day we went up to Devils Postpile National Monument. Devils Postpile was pretty nice, you have to take a shuttle to the trailhead and then it's an easy half mile hike. We went on the interpretive walk with a forest ranger to the Postpile. I probably wouldn't have gone on the interpretive walk, but Dick came along with me and wanted to so I figured whatever, I have all day and I'm getting paid for this. I am glad we did the interpretive walk though, it was nice. After the Postpile, we hiked another mile to Rainbow Falls which is on the San Jaoquin River. It's pretty nice there too. After getting some pictures there we went back to Devils Postpile where I did some fly fishing on the San Jaoquin. I was really off that day, I missed about 8 strikes. I ended up not catching a single fish. I'd go back again, but you have to pay $7 just to get in the park and I'd rather fish for free somewhere else. The San Jaoquin is classified as a wild trout stream and hasn't been stocked in like 20 years. It has a rather healthy population of trout from 4 different species - rainbow, brown, brook and golden. I think golden are the only native species though.
Yesterday I lost about $16 worth of flies while I tried to fish a narrow rather overgrown gorge like section of the Owens River, I didn't catch anything and I've decided to take a day or two off from fishing, all the flies I've been losing are starting to add up.
We're back to work tonight and I'm really tired, on those days off I sort of switched back to being up during the day. It's going really slow though and I was lucky enough to be able to get a little nap in from about 2am-4am before anything really started to happen. We should be here for another 10 to 14 days, and that's just fine with me. People pay good money to come here and go fly fishing and hiking and what not, and I'm getting paid for it.
There's a new guy here being trained with our company which means one thing for me - I'm not the new guy anymore. It also means that we have someone to take the garbage out for us and do other stuff like that, it's not a bad deal.
I'll be putting some pictures up from the Devils Postpile and maybe some other random pictures soon. That's all for now though!