Day 6 --Tok to Valdez

Day 6- We woke up in Tok,Alaska at the Bears Paw Campground. The weather was beautiful. We travelled south on the Richardson highway on our way to Valdez. On our way through the spectacular mountain views, we stopped to watch a moose cross a lake and wander into the trees. The clear lake showed mirror images of the mountains and trees. As we made our way down the highway, through more construction and gravel roads, it became cloudy and poured rain. We drove past semi-active volcano mountains in the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park and entered a lush almost tropical type valley with thick green forest. As we travelled, we past through Thompson Pass and Worthington Glacier. We then drove down into Keystone Canyon with sheer canyon walls containing countless waterfalls including the famous Bridal Veil waterfalls and Horsetail Falls.This took us to the beautiful city of Valdez. It poured rain and the temperature dropped to a mere 8 degrees. Thank goodness for heated vests and good rain gear. Mike found a foot deep puddle to accidently drive through that soaked us, but washed the mud from the wet gravel roads off our bike. We walked around the docks and laughed at the sign that read " dont drag your fish on the dock". Mike and I thought of Matthew and his first catch in Alberta being only 6 " long!!! We went to a pub on the harbour for beers and then decided to go for a nice crab supper, somehow ending up in a fast food restaurant where we had fish and chips and crab cakes. We had to be up by 5:30 to catch the ferry to Whittier so decided to stay in a hotel called the Mountain Sky Inn. Also the rain made up our mind for us.