We Saw Denali!

It may be a little hard to see it in the above picture, but we saw Denali on our tour today!  Considering we had 98% of our activities so far on this tour being rained on, we were happy for a shift in the clouds and being able to see the top part of Denali.  It never even rained on us during the tour.

We had to take a 699-mile detour to get from Dawson City to Tok, Alaska.  Several days of heavy rain washed out the highway called Top of the World Highway and our caravan was forced to take a detour to Tok.  That put us one day behind on our schedule, but it wasn't too bad, just two long days of driving on some of this area's worse roads (it's all relative, believe me).  The first really good day of weather was the day we went on the Discovery Sternwheeler Tour in Fairbanks.  We actually saw sunshine.

Tomorrow we head to Anchorage for five days.  We have a lot of activities in the area and some free time.  It may be cool weather, it may be rainy, windy, and cloudy, but we are enjoying it all!

On the Denali tour today we saw caribou, golden eagle, arctic ground squirrel, dall sheep, grizzly sow and two cubs, and two lynx.  The only thing we really didn't see was a moose.  That's okay -- I saw a moose when we were around Dawson City.