Can you
imagine living your whole life in the same state and house with your
only other sibling? Many people would hate it, but Ellen and Robin Gerhowski
love it and wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.
Both Robin and Ellen work on the boat for Resurrection Bay Boat Tours and they
love it. These two women are unbelievably alike. It is the adventure and the
scenery that keeps Ellen here and those two reasons keep her sister coming back,
too. Ellen grew up in a self benvironment and if she ever has kids that is how
she would like to raise them. “Growing up in place where you had to do
everything your self really taught my sister and I independence. I wouldn’t
want my kids sitting in front of the TV or playing video games ALL day, especially
when they could be doing something productive,” she says. Ellen has lived
in Seward for 5years and she has yet to discover a “boring” day. “I
never tire of seeing the mountains and the animals. It will NEVER get boring
to me. Seeing the whales is just spectacular. They are my sister’s and
my favorite animals.” Ellen actually loves all animals, too, and she wants
to turn that love into a living. She plans on leaving Alaska to go back to Glennville
State College in West Virginia, where she is originally from. “Glennville
is the college my parents both teach at and they both went there so I want to
go there to follow in their footsteps,” she says. Ellen hopes to have a
career in veterinary medicine, although she also has other options. “If
I can’t become a vet I would like to go to Maui and become a Whale Naturalist.” She
couldn’t tell me if she would rather live in Hawaii or Alaska because she
claims that they are equally beautiful and she could never pick one over the
other. “Hawaii is so beautiful. It is warm and the people there are so
cool. Alaska is cold during the winters, but the people here seem to hibernate
so the cold doesn’t bother anyone. In Hawaii I wouldn’t be able to
climb Mt. Marathon and Mt. Alice with my sister and I wouldn’t be able
to run and jump off of Mt. Marathon into the water, actually this water. I guess
they both have their pros and cons.” Ellen said, with assurance in her
voice. |