Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Alaska–Day 70

Our drive today to Seward was beautiful.  But first, if you catch or harvest a whole lot of salmon, what do you do with it?  Freeze it, of course.  But you can also can it.  I saw these two pressure canners in a camp site this morning.

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Our 100-mile drive took us through mountains and along rivers and lakes.  This is Tern Lake.

Tern Lake

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When you are inching your way through a construction zone, it isn’t comforting to see a tractor above you, like this.

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This is what the tractor was moving, either up or down.  Glad none of it hit us.

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We like this sign on the main street in downtown Seward.

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We arranged an all-day cruise through Kenai Fjords National Park for Friday, using our buy one-get one free Toursaver book.  The park has glaciers, wildlife and mountains.  It should be fun.

Tonight, I prepared some of the salmon we were given as we left Scenic View.  I used a recipe in a book of salmon recipes that I bought the last time we were in Alaska.  The meal, while good, helped us decide we didn’t want to spend $200 to $300 for a fishing charter.  We are here to enjoy Alaska and Canada, see wildlife and scenery.  We don’t enjoy fish enough to go fishing and have all that fish to eat.

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