Valdez Alaska

After spending weeks in interior Yukon and Alaska, we’re heading down to the coast . We had to cross a lofty coastal mountain range that gets 80 feet of snow in the winter.We passed several glacial waterfalls.
Passing through snow covered peaks crossing over to the coast
Our campsite in Valdez, we are one block from the ocean.
An interesting waterfront with a mix of restaurants and commercial fishing businesses
Those are the storage tanks for the Alaskan Pipeline which ends in Valdez bringing oil from the North Slope oilfields 800 miles north,.

Valdez in a major recreational and commercial fishing port

That’s a sleeping snowshoe rabbit in the foreground, the town was filled with them,
Fisherman wheeling a huge halibut along the waterfront
Filleting a 80 pound halibut

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