2011 Gary & Linda - North to Alaska travel blog

Farmer's Market is held on Wed & Sat

This young man was playing classical pieces

The guy under the green umbrella was selling hides and huge morrell...

This lady was selling junk from china

There are more private planes per capita in Alaska than anywhere else...

This float plane had just taken off from the river

Here he comes in to land on the river

The Piper Super Cub is the plane of choice for bush pilots...

A fly-by at eye level with the 4th deck of the Discovery...

This log home has over 1.5 miles of White Spruce logs

The Sled Dogs of the late Susan Buecher, 4 time winner of...

Her husband talks to us about the dogs

And away they go

Heading back to home

Now if they will just stop

getting unharnesd and a cool drink from the river

This old river boat is now someone's home

This young lady shows us how to fillet a salmon

the fillet is done

and hung up to dry.

The Moose are a lot larger in Alaska than in Colorado.

A typical "Fish Camp" cabin

This young lady, a sophomore at UAF, talks to us about her...

And this young man, also a student at UAF, discribes this coat...

This beautiful coat is modeled by

this beauty.

Some of the pelts

A "Fish Wheel" for catching salmon

The stern wheel of the Discovery III

The car club has arrived in camp

Dodge Charger

1969

Chevrolet

1955

1939 Model A Ford

And my own personal favorite

1947

MG-TC

A true classic

Two seater sports car

But this is what my truck wants to be - - -

- - - - when it grows up.

A customized - - -

- - - Volvo Tow-Hauler.

"I just don't know dear",

"Do you really think it's safe to camp here?"


2011-07-06 Farmer's Market & River Boat Tour on the Chena

Wednesday is Market Day so we had to check it out. We strolled around the are at 10:45 AM. None of the vendors could sell anything until the organizer rang a bell at 11:00.

We saw many beautiful veggies for sale and a lot of crafts booths as well. We tried some fried bread from a native alaskan. It was rather bland unless you doctored it up with some powered sugar or salsa. It would make a good base for tacos or burrittos. Not as good as Bannock.

Linda & I went to the library and I uploaded an entry, then home for lunch and a short nap.

At 2:00 we were scheduled for a tour on the River Boat Discovery III. This is a 175 Ft. Stern Wheeler on the Chena River. The oriiginal captain was an enterprizing man named Jim Binkly. He is deceased but the company is still family owned and run. His Grandson was our captain for the day. They gave a very extensive tour and informational narrative while we were going down and back up the river. We stopped at several spots along the way and talked by radio to people along the shore.

At the Alaskan Indian Fish Camp we got off the boat and had 3 mini talks by the natives about their culture and life style. At $54/person this was a good value for the 2 hour tour and boat ride.

Later that evening a classic car club rolled into camp and parked for an hour. We checked them out while they showed them off.

Later,

Gary

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