However here we are now and what a blast!

Eldred Rock

Arrived in Haines, Wednesday after a wonderful ferry ride up the Lynn Canal.  Almost cried (ok we did) when we saw Eldred Rock.

After dropping everything at our cabin at  Salmon Run Campground, we went for a drive to reconnect with the area.

A call to Drake Air indicated we may be able to go early to Glacier Point. Woo Hoo we were happy as the weather was gorgeous.  We headed out to the airstrip at 9:30 Thursday morning (May 9th) for our trip

Small – oh yeah most tiny plane!!!

. Here is a picture of the small (very little plane).  As you might imagine it was interesting loading all 4 of us into this tiny plane – lots of giggles and holy cows , can we really all fit in here?

Soon we were airborne, flying over Davidson Glacier and headed for the airstrip on Glacier Point praying and holding our breath the entire way. Beautiful scenery but scary turns over the water.    Landed on the “airstrip” (looks more like a double cow track) on the North end of Glacier Point, kinda bumpy but we got on the ground safely. Drake, our pilot, took several pictures of us with his plane – we will show them later- and then he left us there to go exploring with a promise to come back at 5 to pick us up. Off we went , down the beach with backpack and camera’s at the ready. We hiked down to the old homestead area, drank lots of water from the crystal clear Stelting creek – best water ever- and had lunch sitting on a log on the beach. Then we tramped through the brush and devils club back to where the old cabin used to be. Sadly the old cabin is long gone but we were able to see the ‘footprint’ of the old barn (pictures to follow soon), that was pretty cool.

After reminiscing by the creek for a while longer we headed back up the beach to meet our flight back to Haines. Understand this was a 7 hour hike all told, so we were some pretty tired gals by the time we reached the “air strip”. As promised, Drake showed up shortly after 5 to collect us. We loaded up and headed back to Haines. Drake dipped the plane down so we could observe the sea lions playing in the bay – very neat to see  however somewhat scary the tipping part. Landed safely and we must say it was an awesome flight, a fabulous day and lots of memories were renewed. The weather could not have been nicer, sunny, warm short sleeve t-shirt weather most of the day.

Now we are catching up with old friends and will update you all soon.