What a Day!

Here is a day in the life of Brian - only in Alaska!

7:15 am - leave to meet Carl to drive to Whittier

7:45 am - driving along Turnagain Arm (Cook Inlet) they see a 4 fit rolling wave that's so strange they finally pull over to watch the bore tide.  Here is an explanation of a bore tide from Wikipedia that actually gives a picture, though it's from 2005, from Upper Cook Inlet, probably almost exactly where Brian was watching it from!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore.  He said he'd never seen anything like it, and Carl, who's lived here for 20 years, had never seen one like this one.

8:30 am - Driving through tunnel to Whittier, snowing and raining with gale force winds.  The harbor master says no boats are going out, and it's not possible to move our boat OR to go out and pull up the shrimp.  Started up the engine at least and did some more work on the boat.

11:00 am - Back through the tunnel on the hour.  Saw Dall sheep on the way back on the cliffs, a moose along Potter's Marsh, and then a black bear moseying across the road on the way back up to Carl's, a yearling.  The bear decided to cross the road, part way across decided to go back, then seemed to think, "Well, maybe I'll cross over there after all!"

4:30 pm - Back home -- probably saw some eagles too - pretty common sight now.  The hooligan are coming in (fish) and the eagles hang around for them.

6:00 pm - Judy came home, made dinner, and we watched a new tape that we ordered with Ron James, a standup comedian from Canada.  Then took a walk before coming home to watch The Mentalist!

No more animals on our walk, none other than the usual anyway!  The moose aren't in town anymore - in the winter, we never knew if the moose would be walking right down our sidewalk!