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| Another ethereal land of ice and rock, the fastness of Thor.
Here amid icebergs (H. W. Longfellow) |
Everybody rushed to the rail to get their picture taken in front of the glacier. We didn't want to get left out, so we elbowed our way in, too, for me to get this photo of Bob. |
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| We couldn't get to the prow again, so Bob took this picture kneeling inside the open cabin doorway. I'm not really 8 feet tall. | Glacier Spirit is moored at Fox Island. Lunch was on the boat, but supper was a buffet at Fox Island Resort, owned by the shipping company. The famed illustrator, Rockwell Kent, spent a year on Fox Island when it was still wilderness. He wrote a book on the experience called, Wilderness. |
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| There was a lovely deck overlooking an inland lake. | But we elected to eat inside where we'd be closer to the buffet table: baked salmon, corn on the cob, salads, cakes, etc. Yum. |
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| Don and Jan DeWitt, Michigan friends, took an RV tour to Alaska. We met them in Stony Brook Campground in Seward, and had some fun days together. | We went to a salmon bake restaurant, and had salmon. That's what you do in Alaska, you eat salmon. |
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| Don ploughed into the weeds to get a shot of the Alaska food cache and Salmon Bake Restaurant sign. If you can't read it, it says, "Cheap Beer and Lousy Food." | Another part of Kenai Fjords National Park is Exit Glacier, a glacier you can walk right up to and say "hello." Here Bob is talking to some folks from North Dakota on the trail up to the glacier. |
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| None of the photos can do justice to the immense size of these glaciers. Exit Glacier is a mountain of ice! | The North Dakota folks took the requisite "Picture in Front of the Glacier" of us, and then we took theirs. |
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| From Seward, we wended our way back to Tok. You have to go through Tok to get in or out of interior Alaska. We also spent time in Homer and visited the Portage Glacier while in Alaska.
We drove by Emerald Lake on our way to Tok. See the large cabin on the right? What a location! |
We camped at Palmer a couple of nights, and toured the musk ox farm. These oxen are combed to provide a soft wool, qivuit, for eskimo women in remote settlements to knit into saleable articles. The knitted goods are sold by a coop and provide cash income to the subsistance life of the far North.
Musk oxen roam wild above the Arctic Circle around the world. |
