Life on the Outer Coast

The road to Fairbanks is rather convoluted for a Sitkan. We started on the MV Fairweather on Thursday; spent the night in Juneau at the Mendenhall Campground (outwash is hard); took the Malaspina to Haines and spent last night at a campground we had visited years ago while taking in the Southeast State Fair.

I haven't spent much time looking around me; the heavy rains and general distraction of keeping things going in the right direction have been a bit of a deterrant.

We did stop at Mendenhall Glacier for a quick photo of Deirdre and to let her look at the rocks from her new perspective. She gets pretty excited by striations and weird textures.

We noticed alot of people hanging out in front of the restrooms; now this isn't unusual in a busy tourist area, but they had cameras and were busily snapping photos. Finally saw a group of fledgling Barn swallows on the ledge just above the Restroom sign. There were 4 when I took the photos; later there was a 5th bird. A parent visited twice while I was watching.

So far this is a three tarp camping trip; one under the tent, one over the tent and one over the eating area.