Off to a good start in Alaska. We are staying at Talkeetna Alaska Lodge. Today we took a jetboat up the river and saw two Meese, a bald eagle, a black bear, and Denali (including the top) in all of her splendour. Tomorrow we head into Denali National Park for four days; hopefully we will add brown bear and grizzly to our sightings along with a chance to go fly fishing. Then back to Anchorage where we will meet up with Ngaire and Ken, then Nome for dinner with June and Ralph, and then finally onto the Explorer to meet up again with Stefan and the rest of the expedition staff.

As Ngaire would say: Life is Good!