A Walk in the Woods

On Sunday I went for my last big outing before heading back to the Bronx. Aunt Beth and John and Stephanie and I went for a walk along the beach. At first we had to walk through the woods along the cliff above the beach.

We had to climb over a lot of trees that had fallen down in some recent storms. There were hurricane strength winds last week. The roof of the animal shelter blew off one night (thank goodness none of my animal friends were hurt). We finally found a place where we could climb down to the beach. It was really steep, but we did it.

It was beautiful and sunny down on the beach. We could see all the mountains in the Chilkat mountain range across Lynn Canal behind me.

There were humpback whales out playing in the water. We tried to get a good picture of them, but without any success. We enjoyed sitting in the sun and eating our lunch for a little bit too long, and before we knew it the tide was coming up really fast and we had to skidattle up the cliff again and back on the trail.

Brown Bear goes for a walk by the Glacier

On Sunday Aunt Beth, Brita, Gretchen and Coffee the dog and I went for a walk around Mendenhall Lake out by the Glacier. It was a beautiful day but as you can see, even at mid day the light at this time of year is muted.

Coffee is a chocolate lab, and is very well behaved. Along the walk we saw fresh black bear footprints, but we didn't actually see any bears (other than me).

Coffee and I stopped for a rest. I'm glad he is so friendly because he is a lot bigger than I am!

The lake is almost ready for iceskating. It was so cold I had to put on my hat so that my ears would not get frostbite!

If you click on this picture you can see the really cool mosaic designs in the frost on the beach.