Thursday, July 31, 2008

Carter Kids at Matanuska Glacier - June 2008




















Ice Climbers














Long Rifle Lodge - lunch overlooking the glacier
The glacier is over Matt & Dan's shoulders.





Reindeer Farm - June 2008

Audrey, Mary & Cynthia feeding the baby moose.
His mother had died and the Reindeer farm is raising him.








Bruce the Moose






Feeding the reindeer







Feeding the elk






Audrey's first pony ride at the carnival


Hatchery - June 2008

Both Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base have salmon hatcheries. They are free and open to the public. You do need to show proper ID to get on the base at Fort Richardson when you go to their hatchery. They had millions of fish. Some were indoors and some were outdoors. They had salmon and trout (which, by the way, are the same family of fish). We even saw them "vacuuming" fish from an outside tank into a truck (via a very large hose). The truck would then go to a lake and stock it with the fish.










If you look closely, you can see the "rainbow" in these rainbow trout.






Audrey loved the fishies!





Cynthia and Matt in the rain at the hatchery.

Hatcher Pass & Iditarod HQ-- June 2008

Family picture at Hatcher Pass




Iditarod Headquarters

Audrey and Cynthia touring the parking lot while everyone else is watching the movie.









Future Iditarod hopefuls!