The Mountain View Campground at Palmer had campsites with
grass and, and we also saw goats across the road. We left Palmer and traveled to Valdez. It was another overcast day but, we did see
We arrived at Bear Paw Campground in Valdez and the
campsites were within walking distant to the docks. After setting up we visited the fish hatchery
which incubates salmon. When the salmon
return to the site where they were born, they are stopped from
traveling on up
the river by a dam. This forces the
adult salmon to use the fish ladders which lead them to large holding
tanks. The eggs are harvested from the
pregnant salmon and are milked so that the eggs can then be fertilized. Over 20,000 eggs are harvested a day. This hatchery is important to the
repopulation of the salmon each year.
Later in the day we came back to see the Steller Sea Lions feeding on
the salmon near the hatchery. The sea lions can reach a weight of 1200 pounds.
Before we returned to the coach we took photos of two spectacular falls which
were hundreds of feet high. The one in
the picture is Bridal Veil Falls.
