Leaving Harris River campsite
Bruce and Kathy left for El Capitan Cave, on the northern side of the island. We had to go to Craig and get our permission to go in the cave. At the department of forestry, they let the guides know we we were coming
We were shocked how large the slugs were. When moving they could stretch out to 10 inches.
When compressed it looked like it came from outer space
Flowering pod on skunk cabbage plant
In Klawock we met Anna Peratrovich who in a Tlingit she greeted us at the gas station and was very happy to see visitors on her island
On the way to Craig we passed huge pile of ceder logs at a lumber mill
The smell was great.
Summer in Alaska Construction in Craig
At the Forestry office we saw a fellow checking out Raven.
Ladies in office said we should meet him. Turns out Mo, the forestry narrator on the ferry told us to look for this guy Bill in Craig, who tours with a motorcycle. His wife Sara talked to Sharon on the Hollis ferry yesterday and Sharon gave her our card and told her to follow our blog. So Bill was following our blog with his wife, looked out his window saw Raven, his house is next to the forestry building it was meant for us to meet him.
Raven parked at Forestry Bldg. House in back is Bills
They were following our blog, turned and looked out his windows and said, "there's the bike"
They then came over to meet us.
Bob and Bill Altland
Bill took his KLR from Craig Alaska to the tip of South America. He and his wife Sarah, just returned from touring two-up on BMW's through 9 countries in eastern Europe
Impressive Windshield
Bill and Sarah invited us into their house. Powered up our electronics, enjoyed visiting and invited them to visit us in Wasilla
View from their deck.
Leaving Craig
On the road to El-Capitan
Lot of construction and detours
Tracy Chapman and Joe Hubbard
2 hr wait for road to open visited with these folks
Second delay for construction 30 min. wait
Trucks wanted to get ahead of us, they told us we probably couldn't make it through the next stretch.
We held our space in front and traveled, we didn't want to deal with thier dust and them ripping up the road more then it was. It was slow and sure but we made it.
The first truck behind us was Joe Hubbard we met at the detour he told me to go slow and he had my back, and not to let the other trucks intimidate us
THANKS JOE
Fighting the truckers all the way!!!
Joe watching our back
Sharon kept yelling this is the Dakar
The gravel and ruts sharp rocks tore up the tires
On the road, many deer, eagles, one bear the got Sharon's attention
Finely reached El-Capitan campground
WE thought we would never get there, when we got there they had dinner cooking that they shared
Thanks Guys
From the dock we saw a lot of star fish in the water look good one little on on the rock
Sunset from the dock
Tucked in for the night
Tomorrow into the cave
Long Day ... Good Night
Good report and good meeting ups! Nice job of Joe to "have your back" against the other truckers!
ReplyDeletedom
I imagine those rough roads under construction jiggled the insides a bit. I am sure it would have just made me want to pee.
ReplyDeleteI liked the pictures of the slugs. We get the same variety here in Oregon. They are huge, but so neat.
was wondering whats been goingon have not had any updates sharon i love the picture of you on the bikeup close...i wish i was on one of those cruise ships:-). take care and be safe and don't let them big slugs in your sleeping bags.
ReplyDeleteWe're in Skagway the time is 3:25 in the morning just checked in.
ReplyDeleteDom: It was great having Joe behind us took a lot of pressure off you really could not drive fast on the road the main thing was keeping the dust down.
Trobairitz: The road was rough your correct on the P thing. We had never seen slugs that big before a new experience for us
Cindy: We havn't written any updates because we need to have wifi to publish
Thank you all for following we're really new to this thanks Dom for pushing me forward
We will try to catch up tomorrow