Lawrence Adventures : August 4, 2018

We have wrapped up Seward and moved on to Valdez.

Our final hikes around Seward were hiking up to Grayling Lake, Marathon Mountain, and walking the waterfront downtown.

The hike up to Grayling Lake was pretty easy with most of the hike in the woods. I really thought we might see another bear, but no luck.

I need to back up a little as I have not mentioned that while on the Kenai Fjord Boat, the people we shared our table with had colds. Well three days later we all had a cold. We have been trying to take in easy as the hike up to the Harding Ice Field really exasperated the symptoms. So all of our hikes after that were pretty easy. After several days, we thought we were ready for a harder hike, however, half way up Marathon Mountain, we decided to turn around as we all started coughing up the cold. Oh well.

Walking the waterfront was easy and educational. I had not realized that the campground the entire length was actually the old downtown before the 1964 earthquake. Interesting. However, I cannot understand why they do not install a sewer system at the campgrounds.

Our trip over to Valdez was pretty easy other than rain. We drove around halfway for the night back to Palmer then got up early to get to Valdez (Eagles Rest) around noon.

As usual, Mallory got into something and she developed some sort of sore on her left paw. It looked pretty infected. The vet in Valdez thought she might have gotten poked by something or maybe a bite. Mallory is back on antibiotics. And keeping a sock on her paw is a real challenge as she really wants to lick the sore. What a PITA.

So once we were settle in at Eagles Rest, we decided to run over to the fish hatchery and get a few pink salmon. The rules say you can get 6 per license per day, but we did not bring any canning supplies. Pink Salmon do not freeze well. Thank goodness our freezer is filled with Silvers. Within 5 minutes we got 4 fish. Wow that was quick!!

Chris is going to cook us Salmon Patties and grill us a little for dinner. The rest she will cook in brine water. I think next time she want to bring a pressure cooker and some mason jars.