On April 23, Dad and I went out to Hawk Inlet again. Hawk Inlet is about 30 miles south of Point Retreat (the tip of Admiralty Island, about 10 miles from Auke Bay where we launched the boat). This picture was taken going up Wheeler Creek. (It is named a creek, but everyone calls it the river. It appears to be a small river, anyway.) You have to go about 1.5 miles up the river to get to Westside Lodge, the cabin we stayed at. Yesterday afternoon Dad and I took the kayaks down the river. We hit rapids, but they were so tiny it was laughable. At the mouth of the river, Bill picked us up in the river boat and took us back upstream.
So typical Alaskan adventure. You can't have a good adventure without the following:
- Engine trouble.
- Stepping into water that goes over your extra-tuffs.
- Kayaking.
- And canoeing.
- And riverboating.
- Wearing 5 layers of clothes, gloves, hat, wool socks, boots.
- A good campfire on the beach.
- Pottying in the outhouse.
- Pottying in the trees.
- Hot-tubbing to warm up.
- Hot chocolate. Lots of hot chocolate.
- Chopping wood.
- Woodstove fires.
- Drinking brown water, fresh from the mountains.
- Heating water on the stove to wash dishes.
- Tromping around in the snow. In April.
- Seeing bear tracks.
- Seeing orcas (killer whales).
- Seeing sea lions.
- Seeing porpoises.
- Smelling like wood smoke when you come home.
Note that it wasn't me who stepped in the water over my boots. Oddly enough, I have never owned a pair of extra-tuffs. (Shame, I know!) Nor did I chop wood. It might have been fun if I had, though. Maybe. I didn't see the bear tracks, either. Wish I had seen a bear, though, from a really far distance of course! I had my camera ready, just in case.
We returned home this afternoon, and I was cold but happy. Just in time for a relaxing evening warming up before I start training tomorrow!
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