Hi All: WOW, We had a nice day today. No rain till the end. We got an early start. (Early for us), and went to the Exit Glacier. You can drive up only so far to it. The photo above is along the road to the welcome center. From there you have about a mile walk up to the Glacier along a nice trail at first, then it turns in to a walk up a path that is cut in the mountain with rock etc. Have to watch your step.

The photo above is part of the trail after the paved part. It gets much worse ad you go along. Really rough as you get higher on the Mountain. WE had no problem going up at all, and it was a little tougher on us old folks going back down. I remember this walk last time, as I had to use my cane going up, and remember it was worse coming back down... This trip was a piece of cake.. Didn't find any Moose Pooo on the tail this time. We found many plops of it last time....

WE made it to the Glacier. It was really cold there too. Lots of "People" there. Some of them I wondered how they got up there...I had to dig my "Alaska" coat out from under the bed to take along. I thought we were able to get closer to the glacier last time, but maybe not...

Amy took this shot of the glacier cracks. They had a beautiful blue color, and were very deep. Never thought of a glacier as being very thick. They are many many feet thick. All different I'm sure. But this one looked like it was about 30 - 50 feet thick, and there was lots of water flowing from it on down the mountain...Surprising, there were still lots of mosquito's and flies up there with the ice....

We made it down the mountain just fine. There was one couple that was worried about us making it down. Nice to see some folks worried about 'OLD' folks hee hee.

We went to the Aquarium in town after we got down. Legs were kinda wobbly, but we got in the place OK. It was very interesting with lots of live fish etc. There was a deck to walk out on to see the bay and it showed this nice shot of the ice mountain in a little picture between the clouds. Know Amy takes away from the beauty of it all..

We made it back to camp in fine shape, and decided to cook in instead of going to a restaurant for a $35 dinner each... Giving my trouble to the "Lord" now. "Lord Calvert"..

Leave here in the morning for Soldotna. Weather says a front is trying to get here from the West. Hope it stalls out there. Have to get my King Salmon tag tomorrow, and maybe a pair of rain trousers. Have a coat, but no trousers. Left them home. Guide I talked to said to bring rain stuff....Looking forward to the fishing trip. Didn't get a chance to check out the lake here for Rainbow Trout. Still hope to get a chance to fish some streams. Have seen a couple streams coming here with fisherman standing side by side fishing in the stream.....Wish me luck.

Semper Fi

Don, Amy, & Pharaoh..