It's All About The Adventure
27 June 2006
Sierra Tinglin

     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.

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