Thursday 7/11 Valdez, AK

Yesterday we traveled all day from Anchorage to camp about 90 miles outside of Valdez so we could unhitch the car and go to Valdez for the day. Valdez is a one way in and one way out kinda place. Of course it is also a harbor town so you can ferry, boat, cruise and ship in and out of there as well. Remember this is the place of the famous oil spill in 1989. Coming in on the highway there is beautiful mountains and tundra that reminded us of Silverton. So many huge, beautiful waterfalls. It should be called land of the thousand falls...another glacier, Worthington. Around the other side of the harbor there is a fish hatchery and many sea lions and seals. The sea lions weren't the lazy ones laying around on the rocks or beach, they were swimming and fishing and posing for pictures. On the side of a bridge there was a condo for sea gulls. The funniest thing! Probably 50 sea gulls made their nest along the ledge of the bridge and had babies they were feeding. I saw a few eagles but this condo looked like a great safe place of safety for their nests. The mosquitoes are HUGE here, they picked Dad up under both arms and carried him off into a field and had their way with him....LOL my, oh my they are many and huge!! You hear a jet flying over head and look to see a mosquito going in for the landing on your shoulder! There is a restaurant called  The Totem. If ever you are in Valdez we highly recommend it! Best dog gone omlettes!! Tomorrow we head out for Tok where we will wash the RV and car and then head for Whitehorse.