Well, if you haven't hung out with us in a while then you might not know about our complete annoyance with tourists this year. Don't get us wrong, we realize that they are the one's paying our bills, but this year it seems they are more annoying than usual. All this said we decided that us and the Quackenbush's would be tourists yesterday. This does not mean that we stood in the middle of the road taking pictures, or asking over and over again how to get out free train charm, it means we finally took advantage of a couple tours offered here in Skagway. First we decided to go Glacier Country flight seeing. This is probably one of the coolest things you can do up here (besides the train of course...). The tour takes you over several of the large glaciers in the are, and finished off with the Mead Glacier which is part of the Juneau Ice Fields. It is easily some of the most amazing scenery that we've ever encountered. The pictures turned out cool, but don't really do it justice. After doing that we went across the fjord over the the city of Haines to float the Chilkat River. This river is pretty cool because it has the largest concentration of bald eagles in the world. Also, on the bus ride out to the river we had a pretty sweet encounter with one of the largest brown bears I've ever seen. It was fishing on the creek bed for salmon, while her two cubs watched. I've attached a quick video of the bear getting a fish and taking it into the woods for her cubs. It's a little shaky cause we were in a bus seeing it, also the sound is of everyone on the bus so i recommend turning it down. All in all it was nice to get away from work for a day and see some of the amazing things we have around us up here in Alaska.
No comments:
Post a Comment