We left Talkeetna on Wednesday heading towards Anchorage. We saw our first Target store since we left the lower 48. It felt good to be back in a hustling bustling city for a few days. But I have to say the noise factor was a bit of an adjustment. We stayed at the Golden Nugget RV park. Nice place but spaces a little tight but by far the best choice in Anchorage. Plenty to do in this area. We drove down the
Turnagain Arm one day which is very scenic. Lots of trails and areas to stop. Be careful this stretch of road on the Seward highway can be busy and dangerous due to traffic. There was an accident with a fatality which closed it for nine hours the day we drove back from Seward on this stretch of road. We luckily just missed it by minutes but heard about it on the news.
Checked out the
Portage Glacier area and Williwaw Campground ( dry camp) in the Chugach forest and decided to spend few days there as well. Unfortunately the rains started and did not stop for the next five days. I did take a walk with Zuzu in the rain to the Byron glacier. She was one soggy dog by the time I got back to the homestead. Even still the area is beautiful and right down the road is the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. We hit it at just the right time for the baby moose bottle feeding. They guzzled them down in about 30 seconds flat!
We also took the drive to Whittier through the narrow and long famed
Anton Anderson tunnel and had lunch at a really good unpretentious fish and chips sorta of place. Wish I could remember the name but it was quite yummy. All of this in the pouring rain. The café at Portage Glacier has very good food as well. Jack said it was one of the best burgers he ever had and the clam chowder was excellent too.
It rained all the way down the Kenai Peninsula to
Seward. We stayed on the water front in one of the municipal parks, they have water and electric but no sewer. I never did get to see the bay in all of its glory just too fogged in and rainy. I did get to see my first sea otter and that was very cool, sorry no camera. We took the drive to
Exit Glacier one of the days but the road was flooded so we only saw it from a distance.
We drove around a bit and found Lost Lake Trail and took a hike when the rain calmed down to more of drizzle. It was a beautiful lush rain forest. We decided to leave when weather reports said another front was moving in (and our holding tanks were full) and no chance of sun for the next three or four days. Wish the weather was better, I would have loved to have seen more of this area. Next heading toward Valdez. Planning on staying there until the weather clears so we can do one the water glacier tours. I am not leaving Alaska until we do!
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