The still air makes great reflections in the lake opposite.
In the guidebooks they recon you have a 70-80% chance of seeing wildlife along the Denali Highway, we saw nothing although there was lots of Caribou poo around, they are here somewhere!!
We take a detour to Chitina with the intention of visiting the old Copper mine at Kennicot but the road is bad and we turn round after a few miles, the road crosses the Copper river and there are many people out fishing for Salmon with nets, everyone is allowed to take 25 fish each & they are pretty big.
Chitina was a bit of a boom town when the mine was open & a few relics remain from that time.
The weather unfortunately deteriorates as we cross the Thompson pass into Valdez although the town & setting look stunning.
The Seagulls also like Valdez for the discarded Salmon from the fishermen.
Salmon & Halibut fishing is the main industry & passtime down here, it's also the Southern end of the Trans-Alaska pipeline we followed North a few days ago.
The following day we retrace our steps for some of the way returning to Tok, the weather is a little wet so not a great day for photographs, we do however come across this Moose & it was sunny at the time.
Well fed seagulls.
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