Denali

First let me say Happy Anniversary to Marci & Gene on the 5th. Then a Happy Birthday to Marista & Andrea(Marista's has past and Andrea's toward the end of the month.

Monday we drove to Denali NP from Fairbanks. The first pictures were taken on the trip down. When we got to Denali there were only 2 sites left. Lucky! We went to town and did a little shopping since we saw a sign 50% off.
The next morning, Tuesday, we took the 9:15am bus to tour the park. We saw 3 fox, a few groups of Caribou, many Dall sheep, few moose, 3 grizzly bears, ground squirrel, ptarmigan, bald eagles(not a great picture of one), wolf(to far for pics. we could see them through binoculars). Gene captured a great picture of a red fox going after a bear. I have the bear in the picture but the fox is a dot on the far right. We got back home at 9pm. Quite a full day. We got some pictures of Denali on the way into the park but then the clouds came in and by the time we got to Wonder Lake there was wind and light rain. We have seen it all before. we were here once with our son Steve and his wife Bonnie and her parents, and once with our son Jeff and his friend Lisa. We met some very interesting people on the bus. A group from Israel,a criminologist, an anthropologist, travel agent, also, a young girl traveling alone from China, and a Japanese family. All made it a joy to travel.
Alaska has a population of about 647,000 in the whole State, which is bigger than Texas. The park is as big as New Hampshire. There are no utility polls or wires, and only one road into the park and can only be accessed by bus.