We drove to Anchorage from Denali Thursday afternoon. Enroute, we attempted to click a few pictures of Mt. McKinley. Each time we pulled over to snap some photos, there were clouds shrouding the top 5,000 feet or so of the mountain. Evidently, that is a fairly common occurrence. It certainly was the case whenever we wanted to photograph the summit. Then, when we arrived back in Anchorage, I convinced everyone that we should stop at a park alongside a river where I had heard that large numbers of salmon were running. While the actual waterway was nice, it was across the street from some train tracks and a dingy industrial area. Of course, there were no fish in the creek, either. The boys ridiculed me relentlessly about dragging them to an alleged salmon preserve, only to see vacant buildings and burned-out automobiles instead of abundant schools of fish. Nature at its finest.
Anyway, here are some pictures from the past few days. Tomorrow I will post the webcam links for our ship and for the ports we will be visiting, lest anyone is remotely interested in taking a look at those. By the way, we have not seen darkness since we were back in Michigan. The sun did not set while we were up at Denali, and it is still daylight here in Anchorage at 11:00 p.m.
The scenery flying into Anchorage.
Our cabin at Denali.
A Dall Sheep poised and ready to charge at us.
I liked this sign.
Our rental van, with the elusive Mt. McKinley in the background.
Mt. McKinley - just imagine that the clouds behind Adam are not there.
3 comments:
Hey I told you about fishin' in my comment to your prior post. If you wanna catch some fish, c'mon down here to Kenai!
Nanook,
I only wish we would have had time to go to Kenai. Next time we will stay up here longer. Yep, not only do we have trouble catching fish, we can't even manage to SEE fish - even when they are supposedly jumping right out of the river!
Ah well, it looks like you folks are heading south....too bad. You would have enjoyed the Kenai countryside...and caught some fish! Maybe next time, eh? Have fun on the ship.
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