Well, all too soon our time in Alaska is drawing rapidly to a close. It's Sunday 31st August, and we're in Haines waiting to catch the ferry that will take us, over the course of the next 5 days, back down to Seattle. Very sad to leave. Even though, appropriately enough, it is raining once again as we prepare to depart. In fact, locals tell us this has been the wettest summer for over 20 years. Yesterday morning we awoke at our campsite to find that the rain falling (ceaselessly throughout the night) onto our heads was, on the hillside only a hundred metres above us, falling as snow. In August!
Time to say thank you Alaska for the many wonders you have shared with us….
The fish:
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| Max's first pink salmon |
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| Gus trying hard to catch his first salmon... |
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| And eventually succeeding... |
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….culminating in this beautiful red salmon,
caught with a fly! |
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| Getting into the blueberry harvest! |
The berries:
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| Clutching our blueberry harvest |
The gold:
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| Filling the gold pan |
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Gold panning in Chicken with experienced
old-timer Spike Jorgensen
The bears:
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| Grizzly female in our campsite yesterday |
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| Female grizzly frolicking in Denali |
The rain:
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| Rain in Seward (5 solid days of it!) |
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| Rain everywhere else in the Kenai Peninsula |
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| Rain on the Denali highway…. |
The ice and snow:
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| Finally touching their first glacier. |
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The Knik glacier as viewed from the seat of Mark's C180 - Very Close Indeed!
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| Barefoot Zimbos in the Snow! |
And, of course, the incredible landscapes:
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| Yet another picture-perfect campsite! |
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| Typical Denali Landscape |
Thank you Alaska!
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