I totes got educated.
I am not a native of the Pacific NorthWET… I mean NORTHWEST… So, instead of taking “History of the Pacific Northwest: How the Salmon Die”… I took “History of California: We Are Bigger than Your State. WAY Bigger”.
In the 13+ years I have lived here, the most I have really learned about salmon is that they taste super-nommy when cooked on a cedar plank.
Or something like that.
Until my daughter’s third-grade field trip to a local salmon spawning site.
The salmon came a week early this year. This meant we had to travel a mile further upstream.
If I do my math right – it took them a week to make a mile.
Herein lies reason #1 I am glad I am not a salmon – I can swim a mile in under 30 minutes.
*BAM*
I don’t even have a special fish fin. Just me and my arms and legs. I’m not even MADE for water.
Slowpokes.
The second reason I am glad I am not a salmon is… the whole DYING AFTER “GIVING BIRTH”.
Basically, these puppies, ermmmm… fishies swim up a stream, lay their eggs and die.
Not that I didn’t feel like dying after giving birth, but seriously.
So. If you ever make your way down a trail to a creek where the salmon spawn… be prepared.
THE STENCH.
Think about it – death.
IT SMELLED LIKE DEATH BECAUSE THERE WERE DEAD FISH BEASTS EVERYWHERE.
Dead.
They have teeth. Not unlike barracuda and piranha. See why I am afraid of fish?! Can fish get the Rabies?
I know! Let’s play a picture game! This will be fun! Can you find the decomposing salmon?
What fun for the third graders!
But enough about them – you’d be so proud of me. I never threw up! All that death and smell of death and observant third-grade comments… and I never vomited!
But I gagged.
Multiple times.
And I offer my amends for posting such pictures. Just be thankful the interwebz is not scratch and sniff… just sayin’.
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Over here… I have a sweet post about friendship up. Hope you can pop by 🙂
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