Friday, June 20, 2008

On to Juneau

Fishing in Eagle River
View from campground


some of the wooded area where the bears like to play

lots of mountains like these all around






Aaron the mosquito slayer











Picture from the ferry heading towards Juneau




Day 7 Thursday

Took a highspeed Ferry boat to Juneau. It was about a 4 and a half hour ride. The ride was pretty peaceful, it had a quiet group of people aboard. We taught Aaron to play cribbage and Logan slept most of the way. We have been staying up pretty late at night as it doesn’t get dark until after midnight. Two whales gave us a show as we got into port. We arrived in Juneau in the evening and found a pretty nice camp sight about 20 miles out of town, Eagle Creek Camp Ground. We wet up camp and made dinner – we had to work fast as the mosquitos were trying to carry us away. The host to the camp ground, Joy, came over and gave us a ride on her Polaris Ranger all around the camp ground. She showed us all the places the bears like to “play” at. We camped on the mouth of river. We tried some fishing but there wasn’t any running yet. We stayed up late again as we were still playing by the river and didn’t realize it was 11:00 already. We had to be up at 5:00am to catch the Ferry to Haines. I think Juneau so far, has been the most beautiful place I have seen.

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