Its that time of the year again....autumn, and the salmon are returning home after exploring the Pacific for a few short years. One feels humbled watching these valiant fish battling waterfalls, rapids, currents and dangerous rocks to reach their destination. After surviving being hunted by numerous predators, human, bear, wolf, otter, eagle and raven, they reach their 'point of origin', a small area of gravel or sand in the upper reaches of rivers, streams and creeks, where they pair up, lay their eggs and watch their nest and yet un-hatched offspring until they die.
And then gulls and scavengers move in to consume their rotting carcasses and so close the salmon's circle of life and death.
