Day 73: Williwaw Campground

June 26, 2014

Once again it rained most of the night and most of today. Rain, Rain, GO AWAY! It finally stopped about 4:30 this afternoon. Hopefully tomorrow will be a brighter day. We used the rain as an excuse to sleep in and then have sort of a lazy day. We purchased a mini-blind for Fred when we went to Anchorage yesterday. The pleated day/night shades that came with the rig for the long window by the door has never worked properly and one of the strings finally broke about a week ago. We decided we did not want to restring it and just purchased the blind. It was a little harder to install than we expected due to the tight area in the valance. We didn't want to take down due to some wires running up through it to the controls in the cabinet above. But after just a few contortions we got it installed and are quite happy with the way it looks and works. We just might want to change some others out. Well, at least one of us might like that.

The large bag of "happy pills" had to be kept close

After finishing that task we took Scout for a nice hike. It was still raining lightly when we started but quit shortly and we had a great hike. This is such a pretty area. We hiked to another campground and then back to a glacial moraine behind that campground. There were several really nice water falls and a beautiful blue pond. While walking we took some pictures of some flowers we wanted to come home and identify. Things are really in bloom here now. It has been fun to see the rapid change first from brown to lush green and now lots of blooms everywhere.

Cow Parsnip

Fireweed

Western Columbine

We got word from Barry and Donna that they arrived home safely. For that we are very thankful. We are also thankful for the wonderful time we had together exploring this state. Dear friends, we miss you already and Scout is still looking for you.

Still not sure what our plans are from here but plan to stay here a while longer to do some additional hikes in this area and maybe back to Anchorage for some museums and bike trails there. Tomorrow we plan to do some bike trails in this area – hopefully in some sunshine!