We left the Kenai Peninsula today, drove back through Anchorage, and to the Northeast, to Sheep Mountain Lodge, halfway east on the Glenn Highway. Some great scenery and bird shots today!
Lunch was in a nice deli in Anchorage called "Sweet Basil Cafe". Pretty good.
We stopped for the evening at Sheep Mountain Lodge, around Milepost 113 on the Glenn Highway, right in the middle of nowhere! It was kind of near the Matanuska Glacier but nothing else, which we liked! The restaurant attached to the hotel was great and the rooms fantastic. Another great place that we highly reccomend! (Link)
Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula
Above and Below: Spruce Grouse
White-Winged Crossbill
Spawning Sockeye Salmon near Tern Lake (Kenai Pen.)
Trumpeter Swans on Turnagain Arm
Bald Eagle along Turnagain Arm
Above Two: Dall's Sheep on the cliff, along Seward Highway near Girdwood
Our Alaska rental license plate!
American Widgeon
Above and Below: Red-Necked Grebe (above is a juvenile)
Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe
Mallard Duck
Above and Below: Salmon coming to spawn
Herring Gull
A view from Potter Marsh
Merlin along the boardwalk
White-Crowned Sparrow
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Northern Pintail
Now we have driven north of Anchorage
View from Eagle River Nature Center (http://www.ernc.org/)
Little Sustina River
Arctic Ground Squirrel
Hoary Marmot
Above Two: Independence Mine State Historic Site
Matanuska Glacier
Matanuska River
Mountains along the Glenn Highway
HIGHLIGHTS FROM TODAY MAPPED (INTERACTIVE)
TODAY'S ROUTE
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