After our trip to Whittier we returned to Fort Richardson’s Black Spruce RV Park for a several days of down time, catching up on laundry and restocking some supplies. Then it was off to Valdez on August 11th. This required a two-day trip to reach Valdez taking Highway 1, the Glenn Highway to Glenallen, and then taking Highway 4 south to Valdez. This trip took us through some more absolutely beautiful country and by some more glaciers while traveling over a lot of treacherous roadway on Highway 1. We spent one night at Glenallen near the junction of the two highways before proceeding to Valdez in the Saturn. Highway 4 took us past an entrance and visitors center for Wrangell - St. Elias National Park and through more wonderful scenery all the way to Valdez. Here are photos of some of the scenery along these two highways. I won’t bore you trying to describe each photo although there are many things to learn at each place. However, the first photo is one of Dick during one of his typical times cleaning the windshield of the RV while using his electrified “tennis racquet” to fend off the yellow jackets!
Everyone has heard of Valdez as it relates to the Exxon Valdez oil spill but there is much much more to Valdez and the beautiful Prince William Sound. We took a cruise on a wildlife and sightseeing tour ship, the Lulu Belle, to the Columbia Glacier and many spots in the Sound. Unfortunately a fog bank rolled in for part of the cruise, as you will see in some photos of Puffins and sea lions that appear a bit hazy. We could not actually reach the face of the Columbia Glacier where it calves into the sound as the icebergs and other small ice was too much to allow it. The skipper did pull the bow of his ship right up into some rock cave like places to allow us to get closer looks at birds.
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Dick found some particularly photographic small icebergs too. Due technical blog problems we'll add these photos later. (Photos 8/12 D1-D3 )
Also at Valdez we stopped at a salmon viewing spot and the pink salmon were there by the thousands spawning and trying to go up the small stream until they hit the falls as you can see in the pictures! 
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