Wednesday, July 2
Today was our day at Denali. There is limited access to the park, so we spent 8 hours and 132 miles on a dusty narrow trail bouncing along in an ancient green school bus, putting our lives on the line 4,000 feet above the park floor with a driver named Ned. We were very fortunate that today was beautiful and sunny and Ned said it was the best view of the mountain he's seen all year long. The driver was knowledgeable about the park. He made many stops for us to photograph grizzly bears (at least 9, including a mother with 2 cubs), foxes (3 of these), golden eagles (lots of these), moose (1 total), Dall sheep (6 total), hundreds of snow shoe hares, many arctic ground squirrels and who knows what else. The trip into the park was very interesting, but the return trip was just long and dusty and I almost got sea sick from the bouncing and jostling. Fortunately they had dramamine at one of our pit stops and all was saved. We came back to the campsite, ate delicious pizza across the road and now are writting this blog with only 1/2 brain left between the two of us. We're sooooooo tired, enjoy the pics and please excuse our brevity. It's onward to Anchorage tomorrow, about 270 miles to our next campsite, so it will be all day driving and we are going to wrap this up now so we can catch some sleep. It's a little tough to do that here, since it never gets dark. Talk to you all again soon.
Today was our day at Denali. There is limited access to the park, so we spent 8 hours and 132 miles on a dusty narrow trail bouncing along in an ancient green school bus, putting our lives on the line 4,000 feet above the park floor with a driver named Ned. We were very fortunate that today was beautiful and sunny and Ned said it was the best view of the mountain he's seen all year long. The driver was knowledgeable about the park. He made many stops for us to photograph grizzly bears (at least 9, including a mother with 2 cubs), foxes (3 of these), golden eagles (lots of these), moose (1 total), Dall sheep (6 total), hundreds of snow shoe hares, many arctic ground squirrels and who knows what else. The trip into the park was very interesting, but the return trip was just long and dusty and I almost got sea sick from the bouncing and jostling. Fortunately they had dramamine at one of our pit stops and all was saved. We came back to the campsite, ate delicious pizza across the road and now are writting this blog with only 1/2 brain left between the two of us. We're sooooooo tired, enjoy the pics and please excuse our brevity. It's onward to Anchorage tomorrow, about 270 miles to our next campsite, so it will be all day driving and we are going to wrap this up now so we can catch some sleep. It's a little tough to do that here, since it never gets dark. Talk to you all again soon.
3 comments:
The pictures are gorgeous! I am sitting at Java Jungle today cause we are without power. Just another day for the Martins. Kaylee has an appointment for x-rays on Monday at 11:30. I will let ya know how that goes. Have a happy 4th of July! Any special plans?
OMG love love love the pics! Ken says you had better be washing your clothes in the freezing rivers of Alaska and livin like true Bear Gyllis on the Discovery Channel.
Wow!! It's so beautiful.
Happy Birthday Anut Connie.
Are you going to watch fireworks?
Happy 4th to all.
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