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| The foxes were as plentiful around St
George as dogs are on the mainland. |
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| Some of the seals lounging. The sealing
industry ended in St George in 1973. Some subsistence seal harvesting still
occurs. |
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| Amber and Lia as we were hiking to the
seal blinds |
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| These guys were so far inland, we walked
right past them and didn't even know they were there. |
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| St George Island is in the middle of
the Bering Sea. It is 27 square miles in area. The island is 300 miles west
of Alaska mainland, and 240 miles north of the Aluetian Islands. |
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| This IS the village. The brown building
to the right is the health center. |
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| This is a view of part of our portable
dental clinic. It's primitive compared to what we work with in town, but
it has come a LONG way! |
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| A baby seal with his eye on me. |
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| Those are the inland seals behind me |
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| They were sleeping until they saw us. |
