going to Haines

July 1, 2014

Not having a good internet since Whitehorse, I will  try and catch up here.

Being July 1st and my birthday we went over to the park in Whitehorse and had pancake breakfast, then we watched the parade, it was quite good.

We left Whitehorse in early afternoon to go to Haines Junction, went and saw Thomas and Lyn again, said our goodbyes then headed for Haines Alaska.

The road down is just a beautiful drive, we stopped at million dollar falls they were just rushing the sound is mesmerizing.  Onward down to Haines, down further we saw eagles at the wildlife preserve this is an area they come to every year in the fall they tell me there are literally thousands of birds.

We arrived in Haines around 6pm and decided to go to the mud flats hopefully to see the eagles fishing, there were about a dozen there fishing and flying around, we stayed the night there.

July 2, 2014

Today we went to see John Svenson he has a beautiful art shop his wife and himself are great artists, he made me some beads after Ray passed, I wanted him to make me another one a little smaller, he will have it ready on Thur afternoon.

Onward to town to the bakery for breakfast, it was the same place I was in before but it is managed by different people, we went out to the weir where they count the salmon coming up to spawn it is a very pretty drive out there, we didn't see any bears or eagles.  Back to town to see if we could get on the internet but it was so slow there were many people from the cruise ship on it, so it didn't work for me.

This evening we didn't know what to eat for supper so we made pancakes and they were quite tasty, after supper we went back to the weir to see if there was anymore wildlife, well lucky us we got to see one bear he was quite far off but with the zoom on the camera we could see him.

We stayed by the river this night and it started to rain in the night it rained quite hard most of the night and morning, right now it has cleared up quit a bit.

The internet here is very slow and I won't be able to post pictures, Don't know when I will be able to get on again, We catch the ferry on Sun 6th and arrive in Prince Rupert on the 19th we will be stopping for a couple of days on some of the islands, so you might not here from me until I get to Rupert.