August 5 to August 11 Kenai to Washington State

This was our last week in Alaska.  We went from Anchorage, Alaska to our sons house in Washington state.  We had to start working on getting back so they could go to work and we will watch the grand-kids this next week.

We stopped at the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center.  It had passport stamps for the National Wildlife Center.

On our drive we came across the ending of a bike race on the Alaska highway.

We stopped at Kluane National Park.  It is the Canadian part of Wrangell Mountain & was the only visitors center that we had not visited.

We stopped at Million Dollar Falls.  They had a boardwalk for viewing the falls.

There were several large glaciers along the way.

This large jack hammer was chipping away at the mountain for making larger lanes on the road.

There was also an operating fish wheel in one of the rivers near Haines, Alaska.

In we went to one of two Hammer Museums in the world. The other hammer museum is in Lithuania.

We found a hammer that would be perfect for NOMADS to use.  An electric hammer.  Actually it was invented to be plugged in to keep the user's hands warm.

They had a claw hammer with a real claw handle as well as a collection of over 80,000 real hammers that had been collected.

There was a moose that had antlers made out of hammers.

We went to a fish packing company. They get fresh fish from the boats, gutted the fish, filet them, cut them into portions and package & freeze them.

It was called Haines Packing Company

In Haines there were several carved statues of Alaska wildlife.

Our campground in Haines was right on the ocean.  The weather was rainy & cool with gale force winds most of the time we were there.

At one of the state parks was a fish weir.  It was a mama bear & her 2 cubs that hung out there feeding on the fish stopped it.

We took the ferry to Skagway on our way back.

The weather was rainy & cool.  The water was choppy.  We saw several waterfalls along the way.

We docked in the same area as the cruise ships.

We went to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park.  The grand-kids got their junior ranger badges there.

On display at the train depot were two old trains.  The red one was used for clearing snow off the train tracks as a snow blower.

We took the train trip to White Pass.

We passed a Salmon Hatchery.

We crossed over several rivers & through several tunnels.

We ended the trip at White Pass.

White Pass is just inside the border of Canada. You can see the fog that surrounded us at this level.

We stopped at the Gold Rush Cemetery in Skagway.

Carcross welcome's visitors with a caribou sign.

Even though it was wet rainy weather we saw two beautiful rainbows on our drive.

There were several large water falls.  This one was filled with soil from the mountains.

In the rain we stopped in Hyder at the Fish Creek Wildlife Observation Site.

We were hoping to see bears in the river but all we saw were lots of salmon spawning.

We stopped at Bear Glacier.

There was lots of farm country on our way to Washington State.

A moose decided to run out in front of the truck.

The city of Quesnel is known as gold pan city.

There were several forest fires all over British Columbia.  The smoke was everywhere.

On Saturday we made it to Washington state.