Home & HOT!!!

Back in Connecticut we had a long heatwave and we were in Alaska--Horray--but it is now going on the 20th day since May 1st of 90 degrees and humid.  I hate the humidity!!!!!!!!!!!YUK!

The Cruise

 


In Juno looking at other cruise ships from our balcony



John in his favorite place and below our cruise ship in Skagway.

Our cruise ship in Skageay

Skagway and below John at Canada/Alaska boarder.  We took a tour in Skagway.

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Pat looking for wildlife on balcony and below Hubbard Glacier

Alaska

After flying to Anchorage, Alaska, we rented a car and traveled the next day north to Denali NP.  Alaska is huge!  We spent 2 nights at McKinley Park, AK taking a 4.5 mile (4 1/2 hour-shortest with my dumb back!) tour in Denali NP.  We never saw the huge mountain, just clouds (the Alaskan range makes its own weather) but saw moose, rainbows, caribou, a fox and a snowshoe hare traveling the first 15 miles of road in the park allowed by private car before the actual tour. 

On the way south again we saw mountain goats on a cliff on the side of the road and stopped at a Musk Ox farm and toured.  It took us a complete day to travel south again past Anchorage to Moose Pass, AK. where we stayed in a tiny log cabin in the woods.

We had fantastic weather (except in Denali) and on a boat tour in Kenai Fjords NP we saw lots of sea and land wildlife including my first bear (not as a dot or squished on the side of the road) as well as a glacier calving.  We heard and felt the glacier splashing into the sea-very impressive!  The following day we hiked a short distance, visited an aquarium and boarded the ship for the next part of the trip, a cruise on the inland Alaskan Waterway. No pictures here for my camera died.  I must rely on pictures from my daughter-in-law.



Alaska

Yup, no Mt Denali

Moose but I do not know where the baby pix went



Native Athabaskan with sneakers!

We saw many rainbows and beautiful mountains but not the big, big one!




Just another beautiful scene in Denali National Park and Preserve