Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! Not really, but caribou, moose, and bears anyway.
We took the McKinley Explorer train down to Denali. It is a dome-topped train car and the view were pretty awesome. That night, we took a covered wagon tour into the woods and had dinner with local history provided by a Serbian college student of all people. He was very knowledgeable, but how strange to hear about Alaska from someone that's not from here! Almost everyone that is here working in Alaska is not from Alaska. I guess that tells you something about how people feel when they visit...they don't want to leave!
We had a great tour of the park yesterday. We got to see two big bull moose cross the road right in front of us. Then we saw a mother grizzly bear and her cub playing on the hillside and cross the road right in front of us. We were also extra lucky and got to see several Dahl sheep cross the road in front of us, so we got some great pictures! Last night we took a last minute flight-seeing trip to Mt. McKinley. It was really cloudy all day yesterday until early evening, so we were able to take the last flight. We didn't get to see the mountain, for it makes it's own weather and was cloudy, but we got more great pictures of glaciers and the Alaskan mountain range.
Today, we are on a full-day trip down to Seward to board our ship for the cruise.
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