A model trout habitat in Baja Two years ago, when I first began my search for Salmo nelsoni, the Baja rainbow trout, I contacted Don Albright, a longtime Baja aficionado who regularly leads friends and …
Spider was killed soon after we moved, as husband and wife, to a dreamy little place up on Fire Mountain in Oceanside.
Posted May 3, 1990
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Scott Sadil and the Reader
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Animal friends, domesticated
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The next door neighbor on Fire Mountain in Oceanside brought me Spider in a box
You are merely tolerated. They do not need you. You love them anyway.
May 3, 1990