5 July 2018. To Squirrel Creek
Thursday, and another travel day. After a nice morning sleeping in (and because both of my boys are reading this blog, I’m going to continue to call it that……), we packed up and left McCarthy. For some reason, the sixty miles of dirt road didn’t hold the same excitement going out, that it did coming in. But traffic was light and the drive went relatively fast.
We returned our “McCarthy Road” travel CD at the Ranger’s station in Chitina and were told that there was a neat side road worth exploring – along O’Brien Creek. The road was washed out in a couple of places, definitely not for all vehicles…. But after a couple of miles, it dropped down to a nice parking area where a stream joined up with the main river. We had lunch and watched a couple of guys fishing. A note about fishing as we watched it. This was the first time I watched fishing where you just stuck a net into the water and waited until a two foot long salmon swam into it. The guy caught two while we watched, and showed us a big ice chest full of the morning’s work. Amazing…. no hook, no bait…. just stupid fish…..
Then it was back on the pavement and a quick thirty miles down the road. We did get to see our second moose though! As long as we keep seeing the large wildlife on the side of the road, I’ll be happy….
We had our next campground recommended to us by a prospective XP owner (lived in Alaska). So we stopped here early afternoon and enjoyed the Internet after three days off grid.
It should be an easy eighty miles to Valdez tomorrow.