We finally made our trip to Alaska the last part of June. It was a very good trip and I got to shoot quite a bit of wildlife including nesting bald eagles, dall sheep, coyote, several moose and some of the big ole "skeeters" that I kept hearing about. When me and Bonnie would get off of the beaten path and walk on a few of the trails they would aggravate along with the black flies.
We were about 120 miles south of Anchorage when we heard on the radio that there was a mild earthquake but we felt none of it. Anhorage reminded me of a city about the size of Savannah but once you got about 10 miles south of town the beauty was amazing. Snow capped mountains on one side and inlets from the ocean on the other. We checked out Whittier (which we had to drive 2 1/2 miles through a tunnel in the side of a mountain to get to) Seward, Homer, Palmer, Wasilla (didn't see Palin) and turned around at Willow to come back to Anhorage.
Alaska is big and most of it beautiful. Some of the places on the side of the road had mobile homes with bunches of junk cars all around but the other scenery was breathtaking. Bonnie couldn't get used to sleeping when it barely got dark at all. The temperature was in the 40's and 50's and was quite a change to get back to south Georgia and the smoke and 100 degree weather. I'm sure we will make another trip north to Alaska if we get the chance.
I'm still talking with publishers about my Satilla River book and they are all starting to sound like used car salesmen. Each one has a package that is "better than the others and I need to jump on it now before the price increases." I've had lots of people intersted in it (over 300 on my list that have said they wanted at least one) and I hope to make a decision real soon about getting it done and available before Christmas of this year.
Now me and Bonnie have got to start thinking about where we are going next year to make more memories and pictures.
wayne
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