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Wednesday - So another sunny day dawns (technically true, though it never gets dark: official sunset time for the solstice was 12.36 am!) and we leave at 6 am to begin a memorable journey through Denali National Park. Led by Gita, our Danish guide who has lived in Alaska for 20 years, we look for wildlife - and find a moose beside the road within minutes. It's a fantastic and incredibly lucky day - amid magnificent mountain scenery (and at times precipitous mountain roads) we see lynx (one real close up), caribou, bears, bears with cubs, more moose, a coyote, a few hares, a three-legged bear and the top three; a pack of seven wolves play fighting in the snow (very rare); a bear feeding right beside the road, five yards from the bus; and on the way home the most amazing fat rainbow ever!
We make friends with a couple from Wisconsin, Bob and Diane who are lovely (and who dispel our growing suspicion that America is full of nothing but crazy people!). Home at 8 pm after a 14 hour trek, tired but happy, and then.....
Thursday - ....another early start for the bus ride south. A much more comfortable bus today, and more sunshine and great scenery. We leave Bob and Diane at Talkeetna, a beautiful lakeside resort (we're definitely wishing we had more time in Alaska) then on to Anchorage for lunch and a flying visit to the fabulous Anchorage Museum, really interesting. Drama then as a passenger, due to meet a cruise ship, collapses and eventually his party concede he can't travel (he can't even sit up!) so we leave them and head south through even more spectacular scenery in the Kenai peninsular to our last Alaskan destination - Seward.
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