This map shows our train trip from Anchorage to Whittier along Turnagain Arm. Some of our group were lucky enough to see the Beluga whales in this arm of Cook Inlet. When Capt. Cook was exploring the area, he had to turn around again in this dead end.
Visiting on the train.
Mud flats in Turnagain Arm. There are warnings not to venture out onto them because of the extreme high tides in the Arm which are the second highest in North America. Also because the mud is like quicksand and people have gotten stuck in it when the tide came in.
Fishing for salmon.
The clouds kept getting darker and darker.
This is the area of Alaska that was hit by the second largest recorded earthquake in the world at 9.2 in 1964. The land sank about 12 feet.
The whole forest went underwater...the salt water prevented the decomposition of the trees and they don't decay.
Our train and the tent covered passageway to the boat. It rains here a lot because it is a temperate rain forest. Whittier, AK, averages 9 to 20 inches of rain each month. Snow is up to 20 feet.
It was really raining. Our train is in the background. (Not our bus.)
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