Well we finally made it home and I can start uploading pictures. I'll start off with some travel pictures. We started our trip on rather routine Boeing 757's all the way to Anchorage. From Anchorage we boarded a twin turboprop plane (like this one except with a moose painted in front of the tail section)...
to King Salmon, Alaska. In King Salmon we went to this airport...
to board this plane...
which is also known as the Alagnak River. By the way that speck in the water is the snout of a Chum salmon in the pool that we landed in. The flights to the lodge were uneventful and all our luggage arrived to the lodge without a hitch. On the way back we took the same aircraft in reverse order except that our checked luggage was left in King Salmon (including a cooler full of coho and sockeye salmon fillets) due to weight and balance issues on the turboprop. There was a happy ending though with the luggage fiasco as the salmon arrived a mere 5 hours after we did by Northwest Airlines via Minneapolis to Reagan National airport, where my parents picked it up (we flew Delta airlines via Atlanta to Dulles but who cares the stuff arrived). The salmon was still frozen too. There was much beautiful scenery along the way which will have to follow on the next post
to board this plane...
to this airport...
which is also known as the Alagnak River. By the way that speck in the water is the snout of a Chum salmon in the pool that we landed in. The flights to the lodge were uneventful and all our luggage arrived to the lodge without a hitch. On the way back we took the same aircraft in reverse order except that our checked luggage was left in King Salmon (including a cooler full of coho and sockeye salmon fillets) due to weight and balance issues on the turboprop. There was a happy ending though with the luggage fiasco as the salmon arrived a mere 5 hours after we did by Northwest Airlines via Minneapolis to Reagan National airport, where my parents picked it up (we flew Delta airlines via Atlanta to Dulles but who cares the stuff arrived). The salmon was still frozen too. There was much beautiful scenery along the way which will have to follow on the next post
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