Day 18 Wednesday May 7

Wednesday, May 7

Anchorage....across the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet


Alaska Aviation Museum. They have several flyable planes that they have rebiult. They were finishing one the day that we were there that they had been working on for more than three years. Got to talk to the guys doing the work. Very intertesting. The museum is on a lake beside the Anchorage International Airport. The lake has the most water take-offs and landings of any lake in the world.


Lunch at White Spot: haddock sandwiches.
12 seats at the counter; 10 seats at tables.
Haddock was breaded and fried before our very eyes.
Fresh cut french fries cooked after we ordered.

Earthquake Park
Large chunks of Anchorage slid into the ocean in the 1964 earthquake.
Really quite impressive. An 8,000 foot long section of this "bluff" along the Cook Inlet slid into the bay...with its subdivision.


This is what the area now looks like.







Nice pair of sandhill cranes feeding on mudflats at low tide in the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet

Bought a bear bell and a Ginger toy at the Anchorage REI.


Carl still does not have running water or indoor plumbing ;-)


Moose count today: zero.