Blessing House Bed and Breakfast Valdez

... in the summer a moose's diet consists of fresh leaves and this produces a "loose moose" dropping similar to a bear&#8217;s. <br><br>BUT... during the fall, winter and spring, moose eat dry shoots and twigs, and the droppings become the familiar and well-loved "nuggets."<br><br>During those 9 months, known as the moose nugget months, the average moose produces 375 nuggets per day ... or ...

... watch salmon come upstream to spawn. We also waited to see the grizzly that they say comes every evening between 7:00 and 9:30 to feed on the salmon, but he didn't come while we were there. I took some more pictures so I will send some, but not much else to write about. Diane

We left Tok this morning around 9:00 and it was 74 degrees. We hadn't driven too far down the road towards Glen Allen when we saw a black bear cross the road and then he just walked along the road toward us, then when he noticed us, he took off running into the woods, but I got his picture. We traveled on and the road was pretty good, but again bumpy and some construction. We filled up with diesel in Glenn ...

... the mountains; they are different every time you look. Apparently, rain is the norm for Valdez so we did our activities like the locals&#8212;in the rain.<br><br>The Visitor Information Center is very small. The Ice Age gift shop next door is really nice; the best stone carvings we&#8217;ve seen. <br><br>Drove Dayville Road to Allison Point almost every day to see the ...

... snowblindness and exhaustion." <br>"Valdez is the most northerly ice-free port in the Western Hemisphere and offers the shortest link (Ric******* Highway) to much of interior Alaska for seaborne cargo. And the 800-mile-long pipeline begins at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean and ends at the marine terminal at Port Valdez, where it is fed by gravity into tanks or directly into waiting oil tankers. Valdez's economy ...

... be picking up this Sunday in Juneau. It's a blue diamond! Will post photos of it later on. :) Anyway, our Alaska stint is almost over. We head off for Honolulu next friday. WE HAVE 5 SEA DAYS!!!!! That means almost definitely a sea sickness invasion. They are not fun! Yesterday was ALMOST as bad as that 1st one I wrote of previously and we have more forcast for later in the week. Being a small ship, the Tahitian tends to feel the big, stormy, windy days ...

... way back in 1989 and the spill has long been cleared up. So after a good 3-hours of driving, that included a few pit-stops to see some beautiful waterfalls plus a extremely slow stretch through the most extreme fog we've ever come across (we could hardly even see the yellow centre lines on the road 5 metres in front of us), we eventually arrived at Valdez and booked ourselves into a charter for the following morning. An early night followed and at 5am the following ...

... much of a hazard to travel through. The large icebergs from below the surface of the water catch on the terminal moraine and the small bergs get caught behind. This accumulation of ice is impossible to travel through. The Meares Glacier is entirely different. It is smaller and is currently advancing rather than retreating. We were able to get within ¼ mile of the glacier. Harbor seals dot the icebergs in front of the glacier. Along the way we saw ...

... It would have been about 10-15 minutes before the first fish was hooked and reeled in, This was done by the only female of the group. It was called a yellow eyed rock fish, sometimes called Rock Cod. The drama that was created by the successful fisher person is better NOT recorded, in case the writer is accused of being slightly prejudiced, Suffice to say if any female partner had accompanied the writer on this trip , and had made the same comments and noises this person ...

... to book for him, "It sounded like an old ladies trip, I want to work my passage" was his comment. There will certainly be other choices we are sure, maybe he better go have his legs waxed or fingernails done with Karon instead, because Rick is going fishing! All is well here and thank you for the messages we should be able to keep in contact now for the next week or so, the RV parks in these bigger towns have a better WIFI system I believe.