We left Whitehorse, Yukon and headed east on the Alaska highway, spending 1 night at a provential park before heading south just west of Watson Lake on the Cassiar Highway. Beautiful drive but the road leaves much to be desired.
Three days after leaving Whitehorse, we got to Stewart, BC...just 2.5 miles east of Hyder, Alaska. We decided to stay at the City park in Stewart, since it looked like there was more to do in Stewart. We were right. This picture was our first view of Hyder.
According to the locals there is between 50-100 people who call Hyder home...I guess that all depends on what season they were talking about. Last year this area got over 20 feet of snow.
We decided to eat the the "Bus" since we were told that was the place to eat in Hyder.
Steve & Nancy had the Johnnie, I had the 2pc cod & chips and Ed had the Grilled burger. The food was OK. Had their ice cream after dinner and that was NOT OK. Icy ice cream and stale cones. Then we headed north to see if we could find the bears that Hyder is famous for. The salmon are spawning in the streams and the bears...black and grizzlies like to snack on the easy prey.
We found the salmon...but no bears. We went back 2 more times in the next couple of days...still did not see the bears. But I did get a great picture of a Blue Heron.
We also made the 20+ mile drive up a rutted gravel road to see the Salmon Glacier. It is suppose to be the 5th largest glacier in North America.
There are lots of glaciers and fantastic water falls in the area. Even though we didn't see any bears here, it was worth the trip to see the beautiful landscape.
This is Bear Glacier. This one is really close to the road on the drive in to Stewart.
Just three on the many..many water falls in the area.
We left Stewart a couple days ago and are now headed south. We should cross the border into the lower 48 with the week. We are sorry the trip is coming to an end, but it is time to head south since fall is here and the weather is getting cooler. We are not ready for summer to end just yet! We had a great time traveling in Alaska with the Loosey Goosey group. Thank you Dennis & Carol Hill for planning a great trip.
3 Comments:
Loved ALL your pictures.
Hugs, and Safe Travles
Your very welcome. See ya next year. Your buds..Dennis & Carol
We got lucky and saw 1 griz ;) at 6:00am... did see a black bear pop down from the road and then another on the road heading out... I think they were more interested in the berries that were ripe than the fish right now :P great pics of Salmon Glacier! thank goodness for the Blue Heron or we would have been bored out of our minds waiting on the bears ;)
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