Finally got to do come salmon fishing today. These are pink salmon and average about 3 to 5 lbs. They are running by the thousands up this small river.

This is the house that goes with the next entry but it didn't download to that one so had to add it here.(Must have been operator error!!!)

We left Glennallen Sun after church and stopped at the home of our DRS project. It is a very nice log home that is horseshoed in a small river that flooded in 06 and brought not only unimaginable debris but also1 to 3 feet of silt over the entire property. We dug out some of her crawl space that was full of silt so that the plumbing could be accessed and to permit access to reinsulate the floor of the house because all the old insulation was washed out. We also repositioned her firewood shed and stabilized it (it got moved with the flood waters) and then put all of her firewood back in it after knocking off as much silt as we could. The silt is very very fine sand that gets into everything. We also moved a ton of debris to a burn pile. She went to Gennallen and got a burn permit on Mon so that she can burn all that stuff. Sister Kathleen also celebrated her birthday there and the owner there(68yr old widow)made her a birthday cake so we enjoyed birthday cake and coffee in her kitchen.We left there on Wed and came to Veldez where we are camped now. Are signed up to go on a glacier cruise on Fri so hope the rain stops long enough to get that in.We will go back to the DRS project on Sat and see what else there is that we can do there.

From Homer we backtracked to Anchorage (don't have a choice if you want to get home)then headed east on the Glenn highway to GlennAllen where we will spend Sun and then head south to Valdez on Mon. Halfway to Valdez we will stop at the home of Audrey Popelan and do some disaster relief work at her house due to flood damage. Don't know how long we will spend there because we don't really know how much work is there but I guess we'll find that out when we get there.

For those of you who don't know where Homer AK is ---let me say that it is not the end of the world but you can see it from Homer!!! Actually, it is about as far south as you can drive in AK. It is on the southern most tip of the Kenai Pen which is not the fartherest south you can go in AK but it is as far as you can drive. It is THE place to go if you want to go halibut fishing but other than that there isn't a whole lot to the town. This pic is of the spit and it's shops. The spit sticks out into Cook's Inlet, is 4.5 miles long and only 2 to 3 hundred yds wide, is nothing but stone and gravel and is a hugh port for all the charter fishing boats as well as private boats and is a port for the AK ferry line. Nice place to visit but ---- well, you know the rest.

For Alaska residence this week is net season for Red Salmon. They can net salmon on the Kenai river mouth to Cook inlet. The limit is 25 for the head of the house and 10 more for each member of the house. The salmon are about 5 to 6 pounds a piece. So that's a lot of salmon for their freezers!! It was amazing to see so many people with these big nets just waiting for the fish to swim into them.

We visited a Russian church in Kenai. The Russian influence is strong in places as they owned Alaska until 1867.

These guys are Puffins the state birds. They are cuter than a bugs ear.!

We spent a couple days in Seward and took a 5 hour cruise to see the Keni Fjord National Park. We were blessed with a sighting of a pod of Orca whales. Perhaps 6 of them. Wow what an amazing sight.

On our journey to Seward we stopped at the seaport of Whittier. It's on the Prince William Sound and was small and a little fishy, but charming. It was rainy that day so this pictures is a little dark.

We are in Seward today, July 12, and the sun is shining and so the scenery is wonderful.

Harv and sister Kathleen on the cruise to Portage Glacier. We are amazed at God's design!! The Glaciers are hugh and quite a wonder.

We spent two days in Anchorage. We did see a wonderful IMAX on Experiencing Alaska and a movie on the 1964 earthquake that just about wiped out Anchorage but other than that Anchorage was just city. We have seen too many gift shops so have resorted to taking our pictures by the stuffed Moose.

Right after we left Denali National Park we moved south to Denali STATE Park. Just across the road and South a little. We spent the 4th of July weekend there because we were concerned about finding campgrounds over the long weekend. It was lovely and had this great Veteran's Memorial. Just across the road form the Memorial was another great view of MT Mckinley. We were so blessed to get another few days of that beautiful mountain. Harv did get in some fishing but the fish were laughing this time.
We have moved to Wasilla, Alaska now, just about 50 miles north of Anchorage. We are again in the rain but are seeing all the sights we can. We plan to visit the Iditarod Headquarters this afternoon.

Greetings from Denali National Park. The past 3 days have been amazing again. We left Fairbanks on Monday and are camped outside of the park. The park campgrounds are full.
We went to a Dog Sled presentation and demo on Tues. And took the 8 hour bus ride 66 miles into the park today. We were so blessed to have sunny weather today so we got to see MT McKinley. It's only out about 20% of the time in the summer.