June 11th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
We left Skilak Hidden Lake and continued down the dirt road for 18 miles. Despite the warnings at the entrance to the road we didn’t really need the 4WD, unfortunately. We stopped at a few places to look at marshy lakes and hillsides and bear droppings.
We joined the main road and drove to [...]
June 10th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
After a fairly late start we walked up the road a bit to look at some salmon jumping upstream at an artificial fish weir. Then we drove to Exit Glacier and walked to the end of the glacier. The glacier is about 2.5 miles long and comes from the Harding Ice Field, like [...]
June 9th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
We went on an all-day boat-trip from Seward to look at glaciers and wildlife. We set off at 8.30am on the Alaska Sunrise, captained by Andrea. It was bright and sunny when we left – a rare thing here, apparently – but we hit some fog as we got south of the mouth [...]
May 30th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
Bright sunshine all day. At breakfast our hostess Pamela mentioned that she’d had a notification from Google of a link to her website (Hi Pamela!) from this blog.
Pamela suggested a hike and lent us a book detailing the route. We drove up the Glacier Point road and parked near the Sentinel Dome. [...]
