Sunday July 21 pm 2024
{This is a “Retro” post from last year. Can you say “Procrastination?” I' seem to have gotten around to sharing it with you while sitting at our campsite in Alaska. Enjoy!}
I set up the shower tent added to the gear crib for the first time today. The solar shower needed more time to warm up before my morning attempt. The late afternoon try hit the spot.
It’s nice to be clean, especially after yesterdays 4 mile round trip trek to a high mountain lake to shoot some scenes for a music video. When it’s eventually completed in the months to come, I plan on sharing it here. Doesn’t everyone take a keyboard on high mountain trails? The actual song was written for and preformed on a grand piano. The initial recording was actually done in Brazil, and the video will feature keyboard sync’d visuals in remarkable places you’d never imagine going, let alone toting a keyboard.
After heating up some really great beef stew for lunch, Abby and I set out on our afternoon walkabout, which took us first to the footbridge over the river which leads to the 4 mile hike we did yesterday. Abby was eager to walk across it again and was actually kind of excited by the sound of the rushing water. Before crossing she had a cool drink from the glacier fed mountain stream. A scattering of kids and adults have been happily tubing, paddle boarding, canoeing and kayaking all day. One man has his chair in the water and contentless radiates from the zone about him.
Coming back across the bridge Abby had another case of the “Zoomie zoomies.” She runs fast in one direction, then back in another and in a big circle if space allows. She is one happy little dog, and while no longer a puppy, knows how to have fun!
The campground is a very peaceful place at sunset, much as it has been all day, but even more so. The campers here take their camping seriously, and haven’t come to play mp3’s through portable sound systems. In my section, tents and small RV’s, there’s not a generator to be heard. Everyone is quiet, either already in bed or visiting quietly with their family and friends. There’s a fire ban, so there’s no sound of crackling wood, with the corresponding glow of campfires and occasional escaping embers floating upwards. Waterfowl Lakes in Banff, National Park is very much a peaceful place to sojourn. I’m grateful to be here, and so is Abby.
Good night from July 2024. I have at least one one lingering story from last year which I think you’ll like. A Visit with Chester the parrot is next!
This was posted from Eagle Shadow Campground in Hyder, Alaska on July 5th, 2025. I had previously written the text but never got around to matching it with pictures and posting it. Life happens once we get home, don’t you know?
As a side note, it is SO peaceful here in Hyder, Alaska at Eagle Shadow Campground!
We participated in 4th of July activities, and I’ll have more photos, including the Axe Throwing Competition as well as the Bush Woman Competition!