Monday, 29 August 2011 Valdez Woke up this morning to a beautiful day. We had a boat cruise planned and so had time for a leisurely breakfast and some internet time. Note: this was not spent posting and updating the blogs! We decided that I was healthy enough to camp out another night and so checked into the park again for another night. Now the Stan Stephens Glacier and Wildlife cruises www.stanstephenscruises.com, sounded like a bit of a glitzy tourist tr...

Sunday, 28 August 2011 Glacier View - Valdez Awoke this morning to very fresh temperatures and beautiful views. The RV park is situated on a ridge above the valley with the enormous Matanuska Glacier in it, so the temperatures reflected this fact. Being the brave souls that we are we drove to the showers, which were the other end of the park from our camp site. We then had a breakfast while trying to spot the sheep on the mountain across the road from us. No...

Saturday, 27 August 2011 Silver Salmon Lodge - Glacier View For our last morning we were keen to see the bears on the beach in the morning so at 06:30 we were up and out on the beach watching bears and eagles fishing and catching salmon. Here we got to see a slight confrontation over a catch but again the bears refused to fight and went back to fishing and eating. The seagulls all stood around the bear while it ate, it then buried the remains in the tidal are...

Friday, 26 August 2011 Silver Salmon Lodge - day four We awoke this morning and got ourselves ready for a trip out onto the lake behind the lodge. Breakfast was once again a hearty meal that filled you for a day of activity. The lake is not used by many as it does not have salmon or bears a lot. But the weather was excellent and we were keen to have a go on the lake. We followed the path to the lake well worn, but muddy from the recent rain. We got to the pi...

Thursday, 25 August 2011 Silver Salmon Lodge - day three We awoke before the alarms, the weather was not great so Shoeleh sent me down to say no fishing this morning. So we stayed in and went to breakfast without the fishing. At breakfast we learned that only Barry had braved the weather and caught a great silver salmon for his efforts. We all decided to head out again this morning, Brian had some day visitors to attend to so we headed off with Terry, Barry ...