Driving down to Seward was uneventful. We keep watching the roadside for moose, but
they don’t seem to want to show themselves.
Seward was kind of crowded, there was a cruise ship in, and the pink
salmon were running, so we didn’t stay long.
There was still plenty of beautiful scenery, though.
The purple flowers are Fireweed. It covers the roadsides and hills with
brilliant purple color, some of the plants are 6 feet high.
HOPE
A little goldrush era boom town, that is now a tourist stop
and fishing area. We stopped at a quaint
little museum that had lots of gold mining relics complete with recorded stories
of the old miners. Some of the cabins
dating back to that era are still lived in.
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| Gold mining tools |
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| Quonset Hut from WW2, several of these are still being used throughout AK |
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| Circa 1890's |
I've heard that about moose-very elusive, unless you're on the lake in a tippy canoe & venture too near. Did you get any pinks, or are you glutted w/ salmon by now? Related to Glacier question - why is the sky Carolina Blue?
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