As we were driving north from Anchorage to see the Portage Glacier mom saw this in the sky. At first we were trying to figure out what it was. It is a sun dog. That is supposed to mean there will be a storm within 3 days. It rained the next day. (it didn't want to wait for 3 days).
This is our catch when Reed and I went out on a charter. We went about 53 miles out into the ocean to catch our fish. We got 4 halibut and 10 salmon. The following day (Thursday)we caught 14 salmon on our own. It was the most windy and rainy day of the trip. We estimated the swells to be about 6 feet with white caps. It was rather hard keeping your balance while trying to bring in the fish. The halibut were between 25 - 40 lbs each. The salmon were probably between 8 - 14 lbs. The biggest salmon we caught were three 17 lbs. We brought back about 300 lbs of filets between the two couples. That means we have about 150 lbs of fish now in our freezer.
One of our 51 salmon that we caught while in Ketchikan. Many others got away. 
A picture of Portage Glacier. This glacier is miles long and around 200 - 300 feet thick. That's a lot of ice cubes. 
Here we are on a tour boat to see the Portage Glacier. 
One of the many glaciers up in the Anchorage part of the state.It was amazing that here is a glacier so cold and frozen and yet it comes down to where (as you can see) the trees are green. As we flew into Anchorage we saw the most beautiful mountain ranges with many glaciers. We were lucky the weather was perfect. However, it remained cloudy the rest of the trip and we only saw clouds when we left Alaska.
What we have here is a Boluga (sp?) whale near Anchorage. We couldn't see any whales as we were driving along, when mom saw what she thought was a plastic bag in the water. We went back and low and behold we saw a half dozen whales popping up and down very close to the road. They never stuck their heads out so what you see is what we saw. A few hours later the tide was out and so were the whales.When Reed and I (Bruce) were fishing on the very last day we saw two killer whales about a couple hundred yards away. They weren't there long enough to get a picture. Their dorsal fins stick up three or four feet out of the water.
Yup, you guessed it! Mom is fighting a fish. Mom caught the first fish of the trip and three our of our first six fish. She is the best fisherman ever.
We found mushrooms like this in the undergrowth. I thought colorful mushrooms were only to be seen in cartoons. There were other mushrooms that grew up the trunk of the trees. These mushrooms looked like the could be foot holds to get you to the top of the tree.
