The rest of the trip

[glacier_kitty]

On Thursday the weather turned on us, so we decided not to go to Valdez..we stayed at Copper Center instead. Still a long drive, but from there it was still over 100 miles to Valdez (you had to cross the Glenn Highway so you could get to the Richardson Highway, where Valdez is). It was cool seeing Matanuska Glacier again. The place we stayed at was a trailer where the inside looked like we had been transported back to the 70s, but at least it was a place to sleep :P

Yesterday we drove home! I was definitely road tripped out haha. It rained almost the whole way, ugh. We finally saw two more moose..considering how many miles we covered, it's surprising we didn't see more wildlife! We covered a lot of the state, from Barrow all the way down to Homer..wow. It was nice sleeping in my own bed again :P



Nice weather in Homer

Our flightseeing plane!

Homer from the air









Mt. Redoubt!

Mt. Augustine..it erupts every few years

Mt. Iliamna

Redoubt

























If you look to the right of the icefield near the top, you can see steam coming off the volcano

More steam
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This is where we saw bears

There's a bear here somewhere :P

A bear surrounded by seagulls haha

There's a bear here too somewhere :P

The Homer Spit







Grewingk Glacier



Seward harbor

A sea otter eating a crab I think..



"This is the life..."

Cool red jellyfish





Awwww



Matanuska Glacier

Comments

[foxydanish.livejournal.com]

You got fantastic pictures of the volcanoes! Excellent ones of the otters too! It definitely looked like gorgeous weather in Homer <3 The photo of Matanuska Glacier is exceptionally pretty as well with all the fall foliage around it. Those red jellyfish are so odd!

It sounds like you had such a great trip, and that's awesome that you covered so much of Alaska. There is NOTHING like sleeping in your own bed after a long vacation <3 Welcome home!