Hope Alaska was founded by gold miners, and is vastly remains the same today. It is a town of just a few people, but is a great place to visit. Nick and Maddy discovered a hotel that is actually old wood cabins. There are only four cabins and they are vastly booked for the entire summer, and gets quite a bit of use in the winter. The Owners live right on site in their own cabin. One building set aside from the rest is the common bathrooms, that even the owners use. Is is in a beautiful setting with a graet pond and a glacier runoff river that runs through the property, just behind the cabins. Each cabin has it's own wood burning stove and electric lights, and, that's it. Nick and Rick spent the evening in a row boat telling stories and doing serious damage to a couple of six packs, later to be joined by Paul. The girls played board games and Yahtzee with the warmth of a bottle of wine. All in all, great fun.
Hope Alaska was founded by gold miners, and is vastly remains the same today. It is a town of just a few people, but is a great place to visit. Nick and Maddy discovered a hotel that is actually old wood cabins. There are only four cabins and they are vastly booked for the entire summer, and gets quite a bit of use in the winter. The Owners live right on site in their own cabin. One building set aside from the rest is the common bathrooms, that even the owners use. Is is in a beautiful setting with a graet pond and a glacier runoff river that runs through the property, just behind the cabins. Each cabin has it's own wood burning stove and electric lights, and, that's it. Nick and Rick spent the evening in a row boat telling stories and doing serious damage to a couple of six packs, later to be joined by Paul. The girls played board games and Yahtzee with the warmth of a bottle of wine. All in all, great fun.
Wednesday we went fishing and site seeing out of Seward. We spent about a quarter of the day doing site seeing, including mountains, sea lions, puffins, glaciers and a whole bunch of whales. The rest of the day was spent fishing as we tried all different styles of fishing for different types of fish. We caught Rock Fish, Yellow Eye, Ling Cod and Halibut. We ended up with 95 pounds of fish fillets that we all split up and look forward to enjoying for the year to come.
