Touring Anchorage

Sunday we attended the Muldoon Baptist Church located just minutes from Elmendorf AFB. It has a large, well equipped, sanctuary, but few attendees. The salmon, halibut, and other fish are running, and nearly every town in Alaska is having some sort of fishing derby. The pastor gave this as the reason for so many empty pews.

After church we again found ourselves downtown. The Anchorage Visitor Center is a log structure with a gorgeous garden growing wildly on its sod roof. The Egan Convention Center is next door and it too has visitor information. Trolleys provide an excellent tour of the city, including the airport that allows for large and small aircraft to include float planes. A huge number of Alaskans 16 and older have a pilot's license. To our amazement, we saw a marina used only for float planes; each slip had its color coordinated storage shed. When the sign says, “Beware of low flying aircraft,” BEWARE!

After the trolley tour we returned to Resolution Point to get pictures of the Captain Cook Monument. Englishman James Cook may have been the world’s greatest seafaring explorer/navigator/chart maker. This is also a perfect spot, on a clear day, to see Denali, but the Mountain stayed hidden in the clouds. We returned to camp as the skies opened and down came the rain. We stopped at the hospital next door to the famcamp and used their lovely vacated lounge to work on our Blog until bedtime. There would be no camp fire!