We had a great day here in Valdez. We started out seeing the grizzly again. He walked right by my window and I got a great picture of him. I was in the RV of course. We stayed there most of the morning watching him play with the fish. It's so cute and interesting.We also went to the fish ladder at the Hatchery. The fish struggle like crazy to get up the fish ladder. There are thousands of them.
The purpose of the hatchery is to take the eggs and incubate them. They have a far better chance of survival rather than being left in the stream for the grizzly, eagles, gulls, wolves etc. to eat them.
We found out there are actually mountains here today. In fact it's called the Switzerland of Alaska. Yesterday it was foggy and rainy and you wouldn't even have known there were mountains here. They are beautiful with 4 glaciers you can see from right here in town.
We went to dinner across the street from the RV park at the Best Western. We both had halibut and it was very good but very expensive. Then we went down to the harbor and saw them cutting up and fileting halibut right there on the pier. If it's so abundant here, why so expensive we wondered. We saw a 163 pound and a 118 pound halibut a couple from Salt Lake caught out on a charter boat.
Tomorrow we head for Anchorage. Love to all, Sharon
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