Friday | |
found us at Blondie's again, for breakfast. After chow, we | |
did some last minute souvenir shopping, and I bought my | |
ULU knives and a whole bag of fur scraps to use in my | |
leatherwork. | |
I assigned Mom suitcase packing duty, left her stuck at the |
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motel, and Mark and I went around Anchorage, stocking up on |
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computer supplies for his business, hoping to meet more of | |
the people I've built pages for up there, and I needed the | |
real version of a graphics program I've come to LOVE !!
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Mark wanted to drive out to show me the Dall Sheep that we | |
never really got to see between Anchorage and Aleyska. Back | |
to the motel we went, to get my cameras.....and then back | |
south towards Girdwood. We drove south along the Turnagain | |
Arm to a place called Indian. Parking the car in a turnout, Mark | |
disappeared up the mountainside on a wooded trail, while I | |
stayed
on the flat and took waterfall pictures.
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I thought I had snuck safely back to the car to grab a quick |
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cigarette, when he came trotting back down the mountainside. | |
"Hurry
up, I thought you wanted to see the sheep!"
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Trail up the mountain......
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Huffing & puffing, I trailed him up the cliff. As we stopped on |
a flat, (only for him to look around, no time for me to catch a |
breath), he said, "There were THREE sheep RIGHT HERE when |
I came down to get
you !" (Ya, right.)
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Where the sheep supposedly live....... |
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Had to check these trails out --they were FUN to run on ! |
Mark kept pointing to all these little white spots on the mountain, |
swearing to me that they were Dall Sheep. I actually thought I |
saw one move one time, but I could have been hallucinating from |
both lack of oxygen and wanting to see them so badly. |
Actually, by this time, I was more interested in the view of the |
Turnagain Arm from so much higher off the roadway ! I was |
now looking for whales, porpoises.....even high water would have |
been
nice, since we arrived again at low tide.
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Aw well, still, a beautiful beach......and level ground for a change !
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Dinner this night was something Mom had been dying for the |
entire trip - seafood at a little tourist looking place with great |
prices called the Salmon Bake. I could barely eat my huge plate |
full of shrimp for all the crab legs on both sides of me......Mom had |
the King Crab and Mark had the Snow Crab....."craaaaaaaacck..... |
chomp......craaaaaack......crunch......chomp......"
LOL*
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Extremely worn out and in total awe of the beauty of this vast |
frontier, we were driven back to the motel to rest up and make final |
preparations to leave that night. Mark had to get back home, 40 |
some miles away, and we had to head out as well, to our separate |
homes
thousands of miles from here.
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We were very lucky, we had beautiful weather, we saw beautiful |
sights, and met many wonderful people. I'd heard that going to |
Alaska was the trip of a lifetime.......and while it was, I do plan to |
go
back someday, if only to bug my web partner and friend, LOL*
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If you look on a regular sized road atlas......the parts of Alaska |
we saw all fit under my thumb.....while the entire state is as big |
as my palm......I've only
begun to see Alaska......
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Yes, Alaska truly IS the last frontier !! |
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Sunday | Matanuska Glacier |
Monday | Portage Glacier |
Tuesday | Big Game Alaska |
Wednesday | Whittier |
Thursday | Prince William Sound |
Friday | Kenai Peninsula |
Trapper Creek | |
Alaska Facts | |
Denali | Chugach Range |
Approximate Driving Distances | |
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