Woke up this morning and the sun is shining and looks like it is going to be another nice day. The only wild animals we are seeing are rabbits, lots of them around. Dave has a Habitat Construction meeting this morning at 9:30am, 10:30 their time, after that we will get to touring around and go looking for the bear and babies.
Terrible news about what happened in Colorado, don’t like waking up and hearing stuff like that.
After Dave’s meeting we took off to find Jim and Lorraine’s house and leave them a note. We know they are back in Wasilla at a Good Sam’s Rally and wanted to prove to them even though we didn’t have their address we could still find their house. Fun challenge for us. After that we drove to the Fish Hatchery, hoping to see some fish and also wishing the mama bear would be out with her babies. When we were looking down at the hatchery what we thought were rocks the water was rushing over but it was salmons, thousands of them. To bad you couldn’t fish there because all you really had to do was reach down and grab them, they were that close. We then walked over the other side and saw the fish ladder, how they swim that much and don’t tire out is amazing.
When we left there to drive to where the Alaska Pipeline ends we saw 2 baby eagles, probably a year old, but I don’t know. They were pretty good sized but were still spotted on their wings, haven’t yet finished changing colors to black with a white head.
We then drove out to Bridal Falls and got more pictures of that. We kept going and went to Worthington Glacier, walked around there. Got more pictures of a glacier and water falls.
We headed back and stopped off of where Valdez use to be before the 1964 earthquake. We had great weather, shorts and tank tops again. We have really been pretty lucky these last few days. (knock on wood) When we got back to the RV park the owner said we could use their water and wash off the coach, at least the bottom half, it is pretty dirty.
Ended up going to the Elk’s Lodge for dinner, Friday night is steak night and it’s open to the public too. What a steak dinner, 1 inch thick, super large, cooked perfect. It came with a salad, baked potato, roll and a small piece of corn on the cob, which had been sitting in the water too long. Everything else was great. After dinner we went back to the RV then walked into town because we hadn’t search for a geo cache yet. The cache was right where they were cleaning and slicing the fish up from the touring fishing boat. The largest one was 196.4 lbs, caught by a local lady, she leads in the fishing tournament right now. We did find the geo cache while we were there. Tomorrow before we leave we are going to have breakfast out at the place where we posted the picture of Dave and I yesterday. The Fat Mermaid, it was highly recommended to us. This is the 1st place we have been too that we have eaten out of the most, 4 times. We hardly ever eat out but too many good places to miss here.
We will head out tomorrow, I believe to Tok. It’s time to start our drive back to the lower 48, we both have had just about enough. As usual we never stick with our original plans, some new stuff has come up and we need to move on now.
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