A Visit From Old Friends - Week 1!

Two weeks SOUNDS like a long time when you start, but so many possibilities for a first land trip to Alaska!  After a couple of days to get acclimated, rest up, check out downtown for first Friday and our wonderful Anchorage Museum, Cindy and Peter Molesky, our good and long-time friends from Central New York, had a couple of rainy trips on our boat, Kakwik, out of Whittier on Prince William Sound - one at the dock with too much wind to go out, the second still rainy out to Shotgun Cove to pick up shrimp!  We had a great shrimp "on the grill" dinner out of it, even though the rain didn't show Whittier at its best!

We had SO many hikes picked out to take our friends on, so Sunday we picked the Rabbit Creek Trail into Rabbit Lake - in the rain.  Spitting at least on Sunday and not 100% of the time - a beautiful view at the end of the trail!

The end of the trail - and a tiny bit of blue sky! 

Peter & Judy at Rabbit Lake 

Monday we took off for Seward and a planned full-day kayak trip from Miller's Landing - still in the rain.  We had a great yurt right on the water, beautiful deck and grill - and still rain. It didn't stop us from grilling, playing cards and having a great time - even with the rain LOUDLY drilling the yurt roof all night!  

The next morning it was still raining, but the outfit was pretty clear that we could not wimp out - so 48 degrees and pouring, we were in.  A paddle to Caine's Head, 4 mile hike to the top and abandoned WWII gun placement/bunker, and paddle back - in record time, I've heard, since in the pouring rain, it was not as tempting to keep stopping and looking around!  We did see a whale surface, porpoise, harbor seal and sea otter, but mostly we kept moving to stay warm - or something as close as we could get!

Back at Miller's Landing, it took a while to warm up!  But we agreed you get adventures and stories from trips like this more than the good weather/everything was great trips!