We're 2/3 of the way through our stay here. The "Milepost" and the Church & Church Alaska camping books are back out on the night stand now and we're planning and plotting what to see on the way north to the Arctic Circle. We know we'll tow over to Seward first and take a day cruise to see what we can see. A halibut fishing charter has been booked for early August so we're trying to take full advantage of our summer here in Ninilchik before we go.
The Cassiar Highway is calling too, but I think we'll avoid the Top of the World trip from Tok over to Dawson City as the Taylor Highway washed out big time last weekend. They got over 3" of rain and the road is gone in several places. They're forging a rough single lane path in to extract the 20 or so stranded RV's. News links: here.
The lowest tides of the summer just happened here so we were pretty full with folks itching to get after the clams. I think they did well. We've dropped down to less then 20 rigs a night now which is just fine. Of course because of the position of the new moon we also got the highest tides of the season too. Waves get to within about 5 feet of the trailer. We sit on a gravel berm a few feet above the high tide line so no worries mate!
It may look rustic to you, but it's a palace to us.
10-4 on the TOTW Highway. Which ain't in good shape either.
ReplyDelete"Fehrenbacher said the Top of the World Highway from Dawson, Yukon, to the Taylor Highway isn't closed but isn't accessible from the Alaska side because of the washouts."
We may drive to Dawson City, then take the highway in the truck. Safer and easier, and we're in no hurry.
Yikes! Mother Nature will always insist on having her way, won't she? We feel lucky to have had such great weather when we were up there. Glad to hear you're thinking of coming south on the Cassiar, our favorite stretch of road the entire way. Let us know if you end up in western Washington on you're way home -- it'd be fun to see you two again!
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