Last summer I spent time walking the beaches of the Chukchi Sea. I was interested in the Anqallyt, the sea people of the area.

I saw a spurt of water from the sand and I dug with my hand-carved walking stick until I found a clam. That's when I heard this husky voice, "Leave some for me!" ?

I quickly turned to see a giant walrus as big as a milk tanker with tusks almost two (2) feet (0.6184615 meters) long.

I was so surprised to see this talking walrus that I blurted out, "What are you doing here?" ?

When he laughed, I almost got blown over by his breath. He said, "Live here! What's your excuse?" ?

I said, "I'm here to study the Anqallyt people, the sea mammal hunters.

He laughed again. "Welcome to the Anqallyt Watchers Club. That's what I do most of the day." ?

I said, "They hunt odobenus rosmarus you know. Yet you sit here watching them?

He said, "I don't only watch them. I'm doing a scientific study just like you. Look, here comes one now! I can see it's a doctor." ?

I said, "That is amazing! How did you know that particular Anqallyt strolling down the beach is a doctor?" ?

He laughed again and said, "I can tell by his walk." ?

"Amazing!" ? I said.

"But I don't need to identify him by his walk," ? he continued. "The green operating room garb and the stethoscope would give him away." ?

I looked through my binoculars and sure as heck the walrus was right! I said, "You have very good eyesight." ?

"Not really," ? he said. "I can smell that it is a doctor." ?

"Wow!" ? I said. "Doctors have a special odor to a walrus. I'll write that in my journal." ?

The walrus said, "It's the scrub soap. I can smell it five miles away." ?

Here are some References on the Anqallyt People: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukchi_people 'Maritime Chukchi,' called Anqallyt ("the sea people"). Several Chukchi have university degrees and are poets and writers, or politicians, or teachers, or doctors. Also see: http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/aleut.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukchi_Sea To learn about the walrus go to: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/oceans/walrus/

Copyright John T. Jones, Ph.D. 2005

John T Jones, Ph.D.

Jones was a vice president of a Fortune 500 company subsidiary having the major responsibility for research and development and certain engineering functions. After he retired, he became editor of an international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of IWS, sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He is a direct mail and mail order marketer and operates a dozen websites.

He has written three technical books, four novels (Bull, Revenge on the Mogollon Rim, Bone China, and In No Way Guilty), and many published papers on business, marketing, engineering and other topics. Details on many of these topics can be found at his personal web site.

Jones is a hack poet and amateur landscape painter. He lives in Idaho with his wife of 52 years. He has five children, three in medicine, a lawyer, and a portrait artist. The Jones? have thirty-two talented grandchildren (many with special musical talent and skills), and one great grand child.

Jones is a prolific writer which started when he was an engineering professor at Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!). He doesn?t know how to stop.