While on Adak John spent time hunting caribou and hauling in all the king crab and halibut the Everitts and their friends could eat using his 24 foot cabin cruiser.   Boating in the Bering Sea was always exciting, unpredictable and a challenge John loved to face.   His first daughter, Courtney, was born on Adak.  He used to laugh and tell people she would have to wear a map on her T-shirt to explain where she was born.   Four years on the island was enough of the wind swept Aleutians so the Everitts moved to the mainland and Anchorage 		 
in 1981 to continue  teaching school.

  Two more children were added to the family while in Anchorage, Lana and Curtis.
John and his dad operated a salmon set net site in Cook Inlet in the summer for 17 years.  Since it was on a remote beach, John got his pilot's license and rebuilt an old Super Cub to fly the family and himself to the site.  Along with the difficult work and remote beach life, the family got to experience the joys of having wildlife right outside the cabin.
    
                   The Alaskan wilderness.

 

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