Valdez!

6-25-12

Valdez today!  

We took Didi to Valdez, awesome mountains and most snow-covered.   Stopped at Worthington Glacier and walked over some snow covered walkways to get as close as we could.  It was COLD up there, didn’t expect that since it has been reasonably warm since we have been here.  Made it to Valdez, pretty harbor, and small commercial area – bought some fresh salmon and some canned salmon for Peter Pan Packing and then some smoked salmon from another shipper.  If I cannot catch it, I will buy it!  They had caught it that morning, and it was only 6.00 a pound.  

Saw a coyote while we were there and several bald eagles.  They were huge! There was a section where the tide has gone out and there were about 9 spread out on that area, I guess looking for fish.  But they looked like small people sitting out there.  There had been an eagle at the river  yesterday too, it was so pretty watching it fly over us.  I think it had more luck fishing than we did too. 

Cooked the salmon tonight and had fried potatoes and corn and homemade bread.  Nice meal.  The fish was good – very red in color. 

We decided to fish a little tomorrow and then head on up the road if the fishing does not get any better.  We tried fishing the lake here at the campground, but I think both of us got attacked by about 70 mosquitoes at the same time, and we called it quits… wimps, I know….