Cordova

Where we turned around on the Cpper River Highway

We saw salmon in this stream.

Pansies are still beautiful even if it's raining.

Our last full day in Alaska was rain, rain and more rain.  In fact it was raining when we arrived in Cordova and is forecast to be raining when we leave tomorrow too.  We came to Cordova because it was recommended in our Moon Guidebook as having a spectacular 50 mile drive called the Copper River Highway ending at the "Million Dollar Bridge" which cost a million dollars to build in 1910.  Also here is the Child's Glacier, which you can sit and watch calve into it's terminal lake.  He also said it rivalled Denali National Park in the wildlife to see along the way.  The book was published in 2010 and when we arrived in this tiny fishing village we found that the Copper River Highway was closed at mile 30 due to a bridge being unsafe.  In spite of the rain (and cold) we set off this morning to drive as far as we could.  No wildlife to be seen, except the rear end of a porcupine running away, but lots of snow and ice.  This is the first snow and ice we have seen at sealevel, and was left over from winter.  These three photos we taken in the rain.