Dean & Linda Stock
Well-known member
June 16 Day 25 Valdez
This morning we did "Must Dos". When we finished, we headed out to play and met our neighbor. I've found other RV'ers to be a wonderful source of information, and this neighbor spends 3 months/year here. As we were chatting, a chipmunk scampered under her coach, and I commented about it. She said that they fed the chipmunks peanuts and the eagles fish. I asked more questions and discovered that they feed the eagles every night at 5:00.
We jetted off to the Maxine and Jesse Whitney Museum, which other Forum members had recommended highly. It did not disappoint. It is advertised as being the largest collection of Alaskan artifacts in the world. They had all the Alaskan animals in interesting poses, and the taxidermy was excellent. They were magnificent specimens and looked alive! They had beautiful scrimshaw dioramas, fantastic seed beadwork, ivory ships with baleen sails, ulus, spears, clothing, homes, baskets, and a 11/2 hour series of movies about the earthquake, the building of the Alyeska pipeline, and Alaskan wildlife. Admission was a meager $5. The displays evoked many "oohs" and "aahs", and this is a "MUST SEE". We tore ourselves away at 4:40.
We got home and parked the toad in front of the RV. The neighbors came out and tossed fish in the air, one at a time. A bald eagle swooped within 5 feet of me as he grabbed the fish off the road RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR CAR! The skies filled with about a dozen bald eagles, 2 golden eagles, and 30 seagulls, who competed for the fish. They must have thrown out 40 or 50 fish over a period of about 30 minutes. The sense of wonder remained through the very last moment. They were so close that it was hard for Dean to get the eagles from wingtip-to-wingtip within one camera frame. Truly a "WOW! Experience". We decided to stay another day just to relive this sight.
Wildlife: 2 chipmunks, a dozen bald eagles, 2 golden eagles, 1 magpie
Weather: High of 54?F, thick low clouds
This morning we did "Must Dos". When we finished, we headed out to play and met our neighbor. I've found other RV'ers to be a wonderful source of information, and this neighbor spends 3 months/year here. As we were chatting, a chipmunk scampered under her coach, and I commented about it. She said that they fed the chipmunks peanuts and the eagles fish. I asked more questions and discovered that they feed the eagles every night at 5:00.
We jetted off to the Maxine and Jesse Whitney Museum, which other Forum members had recommended highly. It did not disappoint. It is advertised as being the largest collection of Alaskan artifacts in the world. They had all the Alaskan animals in interesting poses, and the taxidermy was excellent. They were magnificent specimens and looked alive! They had beautiful scrimshaw dioramas, fantastic seed beadwork, ivory ships with baleen sails, ulus, spears, clothing, homes, baskets, and a 11/2 hour series of movies about the earthquake, the building of the Alyeska pipeline, and Alaskan wildlife. Admission was a meager $5. The displays evoked many "oohs" and "aahs", and this is a "MUST SEE". We tore ourselves away at 4:40.
We got home and parked the toad in front of the RV. The neighbors came out and tossed fish in the air, one at a time. A bald eagle swooped within 5 feet of me as he grabbed the fish off the road RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR CAR! The skies filled with about a dozen bald eagles, 2 golden eagles, and 30 seagulls, who competed for the fish. They must have thrown out 40 or 50 fish over a period of about 30 minutes. The sense of wonder remained through the very last moment. They were so close that it was hard for Dean to get the eagles from wingtip-to-wingtip within one camera frame. Truly a "WOW! Experience". We decided to stay another day just to relive this sight.
Wildlife: 2 chipmunks, a dozen bald eagles, 2 golden eagles, 1 magpie
Weather: High of 54?F, thick low clouds