This was the view from our last campsite. It just never ends. The views are unimaginable, pictures just cannot do them justice.

Our second day in Homer was much nicer as far as the weather is concerned. While it is always on the cool side for me, the sun was out and it was a nice day. We started out looking for a water taxi or ferry to take us out in search of wild life again.

We found a water taxi that took us out to Gull Island and around the area to see birds and sea life. The Captain of the water taxi was entertaining and knowledgable though he had to admit some things he was just going by what he heard. Either way, he was super nice and we had quite the trip.

Christy told the captain her trip to Alaska would be complete if she could see a moose. He told us where he thought we might see one and we headed in that direction once we completed that trip.

Well, we actually had to drop Melissa off at the airport on the way to find moose. She had a flight from Homer to Anchorage-so we dropped her off at the Homer Airport and set out to find moose. We drove a few miles onto the road the Captain sent us to and had not seen anything. Then Melissa called and said her flight was cancelled. We were on a loop road and realized it would be closer for us to turn around rather than finish the loop. We had two cars–the girls and the boys–we told the boys to continue and we would turn around and go back for Melissa. On our way out, we saw a moose with a calf (I think that is what baby moose are called). Christy has quite an eye for spotting wild life. It was way in the bushes but we did see her. Then we noticed more in the woods behind that one. So do we hang out and hope to see more or go get Melissa. We hung out a while and I tried a moose call to get its’ attention but, I honestly have no idea what a moose sounds like and was just making something up. It did get her attention and pushed her further back in the woods. I tried.

Before picking Melissa up we had planned to go to Kenai to see if there was someplace John could fish. So, now with Melissa we set out. And OMG, there was no doubt Christy was meant to be a wildlife animal scout. We saw so many moose, we stopped counting and sometimes we didn’t even stop. We did see about 3 bull moose but I couldn’t get their picture. One was behind trees and seemed much more skiddish than the girls. Also, their antlers were not very big and impressive like I expected. This is the time of year they are growing them back. It coincides with the longer days. A bull moose can grow an 80 pound rack in 80 days over the summer. Basically a pound a day. They still have a way to go before they are at their finest. Guess I will have to come back in the fall to see my bull moose.

After eating, Sefina wanted to go by the beach, so we went to a beach in Kenai. We got very lucky because it just happened to be a night for dip netting. Dip netting is when the locals are allowed to use a net to catch salmon. It was very interesting to watch and most participants we saw were women. To learn more about Dip Netting click here.

We didn’t get back to camp until midnight and John and I had planned on leaving at 6:00 to head up to Palmer the next day.

We left McCullough Peaks in the evening before we were supposed to because we knew we had a long drive and thought we would knock a few hours out. We had a fabulous time in McCullough Peaks but, we were ready to move on. We spent the night at a rest area in Greycliff Montana. Leaving the night before and putting a few miles/hours behind us was a smart move–in our opinion. We still didn’t arrive at our campsite Three Bears RV Campgrounds until 5:00. Whew! It was a long haul.

After getting things set up we took a ride to Flathead Lake to take some pictures and chill.

After a restful evening we had a nice breakfast and headed to Whitefish to meet up with Lori and Kelly for lunch. We hung out for a little while downtown then went to Whitefish Lake and had a little photoshoot with Kelly, Lori, me and John.

After lunch at Food Truck Park we headed off to Glacier. Oh wait, John forgot his wallet so we had to head back to the campground to get his wallet–or I would have had to pay. lol Just kidding, he still had money but he wanted his license and credit cards–in case. In the meantime, Judy and Mike headed to Glacier and we planned to meet them at the top of the Road to the Sun. They had no service in the park and missed part of my message so they waited at the visitor center near the west entrance. John and I took some very misguided directions from WAZE and took more than an hour to get there. We did not realize the Road to the Sun is really the entire road that leads from the west entrance to the east entrance. We “guessed” the top would have been Logan’s Pass visitor center, that seemed to be at the “top” of the road. We got our park stamp–yes we have National Park Passports. After getting our stamp, going to the bathroom we decided to head down. On the way down, we saw Mike and Judy heading up. Everyone turned around and we missed each other again. So we all went to Glacier but we didn’t hang out. Regardless, we all had a good time. And our GPS took us out another way and it only took us 30 minutes to get back to camp. Oh, on the way down-the second time- we saw a grizzly cub.

We went from sunny to rainy to sunny to rainy. No matter the weather Glacier National Park is magnificent.