They called today our marine holiday, as it was spent primarily on a mid-sized boat exploring the rugged coastline of Kenai Fjords National Park. We boarded the Weather or Knot in Seward and headed out Resurrection Bay towards the Gulf of Alaska, looking for seabirds and other signs of the local wildlife that summer in the area. The day was…
Category: Alaska
August 1: Kenai Fjords National Park
Breakfast at 8AM was a luxury, especially with the rainy skies, and a forecast for a cloudy and perhaps misty day. We piled in the van and headed south towards Seward and to Kenai Fjords National Park. The highlight and destination of this park is the Exit Glacier, and our goal was to hike the trail up to see it!…
July 29: Exploring Anchorage
So this 17 hour day stuff is proving a little challenging. With the last light at midnight and first light at 4:30AM, sleep isn’t easy to regulate. But it does mean LOTS of time to go and see and do. And since Kim and I were up and ready to go by 7:15, we had an early breakfast and caught…
July 28: LAX to ANC
I will admit that I didn’t really understand how far LA is from Anchorage until booking the flight. And even then it seemed likely to me that it couldn’t really be as far as LA is from NY or Hawaii. But it is. A 5 1/2 hour flight, and an hour time difference, brought me to the cool, cloudy and…
More to Explore in the 49th State
I’m not one to let moss grow under my itchy feet, so tomorrow I begin another adventure — 2 weeks in Alaska. Which, given all there is to see, and how big the state is (the largest at 656,425 square miles), is likely not enough time to experience all there is, but its a start. And a way to escape…