It's somewhat fitting that at an Alaskan village named Elfin Cove we should come across these "moon" jellyfish (a colony of animals that live and work co-operatively). We were in awe as the opalescent creatures, as large as a punch bowl, pulsated through the jade-green water, swaying their tentacles back and forth like a lace curtain in a gentle breeze.An 11 year old resident named Matthew came on board and told us stories of 60 to 80 knot winter gales and how hard it is to go to school by satellite link and have no friends his age in this fishing community of 34 hardcore over-wintering residents. The summer population can be several hundred when the sport and commercial fishermen are in town between June and the end of August. We walked the foreshore boardwalks that surround the town and are the equivalent of freeways in Elfin Cove. We bought homemade salmonberry jam; and t-shirts with stenciled, dainty, "slug fairies" skipping across boardwalks. Our morning was consumed by kayaking, hiking and Zodiacking. The George Island forests were peppered with multi-colored mushrooms--we identified 12 species. Kayakers saw puffins, sea otters, humpback whales and experienced a calm Pacific amid wave-worn cliffs of magnificent proportions. An Elfin Day-the Lindblad way!