We called to wish Madison a Happy Birthday at 8:30am her time but she was still sleeping, she had a late night Kim said. Sorry we aren’t there, Madison, but should be there for many more birthdays to come.
I was up early this a.m. 4:30am those darn magpies were walking across the roof of the RV and I was just listening to the claws walking all around. At 5am I gave up on sleep and thought I would look for ocean animals, no such luck. Matt said the other day they saw a whale kill an otter so I have been watching everyday for a whale but when we went to the visitor center today they said there are no whales out here now. So not sure what Matt and Connie really saw. The guy said it was probably something the otter caught and killed, but no whales or sharks. I just watched the boats go out and read my book. At 7:30 I turned on the generator, to fix coffee, and that’s what woke Dave up.
By 10:30am we were taking the RV over to the dump site, dumping and filling up with water. Staying until Thursday morning, we should be good until then. At the dump site, up in the trees, is a Bald Eagle nest with mama in the nest, couldn’t see the babies, and the papa across the way watching over the nest. Only guessing it was papa because it was really large, I got pictures. Once back and set up again we headed off for town, Needed batteries, for Dave’s camera, and a another chip, so we don’t get stuck again with the chip being left at home. We then stopped at the “Oceans and Islands Visitor’s Center”, very nice center. Talked to a volunteer couple, that work there from Minnesota, and she said she has been trying to get her husband to go fulltime RVing for 4 years. He loves the cold weather so they live in Minnesota in the winter and have been coming to Alaska volunteering for the last 4 years. Alaska summer is about the warmest he likes to get, he loves cold weather.
We stopped at Safeway and got our 1 day fishing licenses for tomorrow. Headed to the spit to check out the prices of a restaurant and pick up some oysters to BBQ. Skip, the guy we met yesterday, said they have the best oysters for BBQing and even asked us to pick a dozen up for him. The place was out of oysters, the guy said come back tomorrow morning and he will have more. He had a pretty good price on mussels so we got 2 lbs for Dave and I tonight. They had to be cleaned so Dave did that when we got back. Tonight steamed mussels, BBQ ribs and beans, sounds good to me.
Very cold afternoon, even when the sun was out, it was really windy and cold. For our fishing trip tomorrow they said to bring rain suits, layered clothing, coats, lunch and fishing licenses. WISH US LUCK!!!
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