Yakutat Bed and Breakfast

Tomorrow will be 2 weeks for Lisa and I being in Yakutat, Alaska managing a bed and breakfast for the owners who went on vacation til the end of March.  We will be here another 5 or 6 weeks and we are quite enjoying it.  We haven't had to shovel snow for a few days, but we honestly don't mind shoveling... even when we have to do it 3 times in one day.  We get pretty tired though, especially when it rains and we have to shovel the heavy snow.

This is what we see from the living room couch and dining room table at low tide.

St Elias mountain... about 30miles away... SO HUGE

A few stories from this week:

So we have these big Suburbans - the early 90s ones that are just gigantic - that we drive around Yakutat - about 10 miles total road, really.. :)  Anyway.. it is slushy, icy, snowy.. you never know - it doesn't just depend on the day, it depends on the hour of the day, it changes so quickly... quite an interesting experience.  ANYWAY... Lisa and I were driving to the grocery store.  Well I was coming down this hill and pulling in to park the burb, well, lisa said something about someone stealing our spot and that we'd have to pull into the parking lot - which is more like a gravel lot about 20x20 (not square)... anyway, So I quickly turn the car toward the parking lot as I am putting the brakes on.. (we are on ice)  And we start to slide RIGHT for the STORE!!! NO KIDDING.  I thought for sure that we were going to  crash the plastic entry way room into smitherines!!  Lisa is on her side trying to press her air brake and I am simply gasping for air thinking, we aren't stopping... 

I am still alive to write this post, so we didn't end up hitting the store, but we couldn't stop laughing - cuz really, we were just so relieved we didn't crash into the store.  It was pretty funny - and scary.

Us on the beach - something wrong with it being that cold on the beach. Snowing  on a beach though.. that was a first.

Today we were walking on the beach with the dog and she started barking, we both look up to see what she would be barking at and about 50 yards off we see a wolf.  It was pretty cool.. looked just like a husky really, but then we walked toward the footprints and were AMAZED at how big they were.  2 of our dogs paws could have fit in 1 of the wolves prints. It was pretty big.  On the way to see the prints, we noticed 2 other sets of prints - Moose, I believe... one set was HUGE prints, the other set was pretty small.  It looked as if this wolf was tracking a moose and her calf.  Alaska loses a lot of their moose population every year to predatory animals.. wolves and bears (black and grizz/brown).  Anyway, it was cool to see that Alaska wild in action.

Sometimes the clouds are so beautiful over the mountains.

Sometimes you can't see the mountains at all - but other beauty awaits!