Super Troopers

So imagine you invite your parents out for a boating excursion on a nice summer day the third week of July. Now imagine the sales job involved to convince them to pack long johns, hats and gloves! Luckily my P's heeded the advice, and we comfortably had the great fortune to sail out of Seward and see glaciers, puffin, dall's porpoise, seals, stellar sea lions, otters, fin whales (huge, and new to me), and humpback whales.


What troopers! It's pretty much always cold on the water down there - third trip for me, second coldest.

I camped I think five times along Denali Highway last summer and it was always cold at night this year. The P's and I camped one night in Denali National Park (northwest of the DNH) when they were here. It was pretty warm at bedtime relatively speaking, but it did get pretty cold in the middle of the night there too, I must admit.


Deluxe accommodations for the P's to be sure in my old 4-person tent equipped with TWO fresh twin air mattresses, BUT I think it's safe to say the camping trips for the P's above the 63rd parallel have come to an end! I guess there's a reason so many people up here camp in RV's instead of on the ground....