Bertha Creek Campgrounds
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We are truly blessed.
... on this trip. Within minutes the narrator was telling us how rare it was for us to be seeing this site as it rarely happens so close to shore. The school of orca's was soon to be followed by a hump back whale that breached in front of the boat and then proceeded to swim around us. Once we reached the Aialik Glacier the boat stopped and idled right up the the glacier face. It was hard to tell how high it was, but I am thinking it was several times ...
Week Two Begins!
... first balcony room; he was able to upgrade his parents from a balcony to a junior suite. They have almost twice the size we do in our room, a full sitting area with two chairs and couch, a walk-in closet and a full bathtub instead of just a shower, an extra-long balcony, plus a doorbell! They are very happy with the space and we are super excited for them!
We grabbed lunch in the Windjammer and then ...
Hiking up the Exit Glacier
... was a 9.2 on the Richter scale, and was the second most powerful earthquake on the planet since the beginning of recorded human history. So a bit of a shaky one then. All over the south-central coast of Alaska you can see the effects; lots of areas of dead Spruce trees, still standing like tree skeletons, where the land collapsed and the sea flooded in, with the salt water then killing off the tree roots. They stand like tree graveyards ...
Rainy departure
... Alaska. We had not felt anything. Reading further I found that the quake had occurred in the far western Aleutians, much too far away to be felt from here. We were in a high risk earthquake zone, so it would not have been a surprise if one had occurred here, but we were lucky this time.
We put our bags out of the room for the last time. We had time to kill, but the weather made going into Girdwood unappealing, so we stayed at the hotel. ...
Keeping resurrection at bay
... problems. Needless to say, the patch was immediately applied. She suggested also to sit in the rear of the boat where the weight is heaviest and always face forward toward the bow. What I didn't consider at the time was that she had probably told everyone who experienced sea sickness the same information.
The next day, we arrived early and secured ...
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