Wrangell, Alaska

Pat's Lake

Rainbow Falls. If you look real close you can see it behind us. :-D

Salamander Creek, we were being silly!

Salamander Creek

One of the largest petroglyphs we found. At petroglyph beach.

Chip being creative. I think it's very cool

Pretty flowers!

Yet another sign of fall. This is right outside our "house"!

NOW this is a sunset!


I can't believe we are 1 day away from our last Alaskan destination.

Our time here in Wrangell has been so relaxing and very rewarding! This would not be my first choice to relocate to but the people are all very friendly and the views from the shoreline are incredible. When you look out at the islands surrounding this one, most of the time it looks like you are looking at a 3D black and white painting of distant lands. Imagine, seeing the island in the foreground as black then as you look beyond each island gets greyer and greyer until they just fall away into the horizon. It truly looks like a painting! The tour to AnAn Creek Observatory was the only tour we did while we were here. The rest of the week has been spent hanging out and taking drives around the island. We hiked to Rainbow Falls, listened to an Eagle calling and watched Blue Heron fishing at Pat's Lake, drove to Salamander Creek, Nemo Point and walked to Petroglyph beach. We did find some petroglyph's and could just picture the people of that time sitting on the beach there carving their messages into the rocks. The tools and patience they had to have is amazing in itself. What could they have been trying to communicate with those stick figures and circles? If only those rocks could talk! The other night we had the most incredible sunset. I know I just shared a picture of the sunset in Haines, that I was so proud of, but as you probably saw in the picture above this one makes that one look like
a cloudy day!

Well, I have shared all the incredible stories of our trips and wildlife viewing time and time again so I thought I should share a story that shows we are still living a normal life too....... Yesterday morning while Chip was preparing to do the dishes (YES, I AM lucky to have such an amazing husband) he backed away from the sink and asked, "Can you hear that?" I stopped what I was doing and listened. I think we both realized what it was about the same time because as I, excitedly called out "got turn off the water" Chip was already on his way out the door. A hose clamp on the hot water pipe under the sink had let go and the noise we were hearing was the water shooting everywhere under there. I opened the doors to access under the sink and steam was billowing out. We grabbed every towel we could get our hands on and started sopping up the water. It was contained to the area under the sink so it wasn't that difficult but what a mess. Chip's first thought was to fix it with a hose clamp but after reading on the Tiffin Forum (our motorhome manufacturer's owner information site) we decided to try a SharkBite fixture (it's not really a clamp). They seemed to be the easy fix. We could not believe there were 2 hardware stores on this tiny island. The first one we went to didn't have the SharkBite and had never heard of it (neither had we until this morning), the second had an entire variety of different sizes. Unfortunately not the size we needed but then it would not have worked anyway. The hose we had to fix was a braided/plastic hose and the SharkBite's are designed for CPVC, Copper or PEX. After all that we wound up using a hose clamp anyway. So with the hose fixed, the water back on and the "home" looking like a war zone we were back in business. Not so different than being in a house! OK it is! Ours moves down the road and yours doesn't! :-D

Next and last Alaskan destination........ Ketchikan