Drive from Tonsina Campground to Valdez, Alaska
Today was an easy day. We only had to drive around a hundred miles to get to Valdez, so we took our time and stopped whenever we saw something we wanted to see. We got to Valdez around 3 this afternoon and set up camp and now everyone is taking a nap (except me, of course). Since we have Internet access here at the campground, I thought I would try to catch up with downloading and posting pictures. It is soooooooooooooo much prettier down this way than it was in the Tok, Chicken and Delta Junction areas. The closer we got to Valdez, the prettier the scenery. We spent the last 40 miles taking pictures and making videos. We hope to take a day tour on a boat that takes you to a glacier and also to see a lot of sea life (whales, etc.). We are going to try to book one for Monday because we have to leave here on Tuesday to head to Anchorage. Time is passing entirely too fast.
We will probably just do some sightseeing around the Pipeline and the town of Valdez tomorrow.
This is the Worthington Glacier which is just a few miles from Valdez
This is another view of the Worthington Glacier
A snow capped mountain on the drive to Valdez
Stream and mountain on the drive to Valdez
Isn't this just a beautiful picture?
Merrell and Chuck climbed up the mountain and took some pictures looking down on the motorhome and the view below it
We saw several waterfalls on the way to Valdez. Here is a video of one of them.
Beautiful waterfall in the Keystone Canyon on the way to Valdez
Merrell and Chuck at the Information Center in Valdez. They had an underwater camera which was filming the spawning of the Salm
on. It was too cool to see, but our camera wouldn't take pictures that were good enough to post.
Carolee and Donna at the Visitors Center in Valdez. Aren't the flowers beautiful?