From Homer we started working our back up the Kenai peninsula. First stop was Coopers Landing. Homer is a Halibut fishing mecca, but Coopers landing is on the Kenai river which is a mecca for salmon fishing. As RV parks seem to be getting ridiculously expensive and the facilities aren't necessarily reflected in the price we went for a cheaper option. We went to a US forestry service campsite which had 45 pitches - all of them full. The police were there as a br...

We left Denali just as the good weather also seemed to be leaving. Heading south on the Parks highway we stopped at a viewpoint from where you can see Denali on a clear day - it wasn't a clear day. Everyone heading north that was stopping for the view was disappointed, but we had already seen it in all its glory. The closer we got to Anchorage the more the traffic increased, we went from one lane to four! A quick stop at the visitors centre for more info on our...

Our third day at Denali was our 15th wedding anniversary. You can spend a lot of money here on organized activities - rafting, ATV safaris, Zip lining, Kayak tours, bear viewing on the Denali highway (that's not the Denali park road) a helicopter land on a glacier and more. To celebrate our anniversary we decided not to do any of those but instead book a 70 minute flight over the backbone of the Denali mountains and around Denali itself. The skies had been clea...

Denali meaning 'The High One' is the Athabascan Indian name for the highest mountain in North America. In 1896 it was renamed 'Mount McKinley' by the white folk, eventually it regained its original name. Denali Park & Preserve covers 6 million acres, and 2 million of that is designated protected wilderness, that means no one can live there and it should remain as it has been for hundreds of years. We were so looking forward to doing some decent hiking but o...

Back on the Cassiar highway we had one good bear viewing but were told we would see loads, on the North Klondike highway people said we would see lots of Elk, we saw none. The Yukon has an estimated population of 10,000 bears but it's a vast wilderness. All us touring want to see wildlife at the side of the road but it's just the luck of a draw. We heard a guy in the visitor centre in Dawson city stupidly complaining that he had seen nil wildlife during his dri...