Sunday, July 21, 2019

Day 3 at Turn Again Arm/Whittier

Today we headed for Whittier which is on Prince William Sound.  To get there we had to travel through a one lane tunnel.  Whittier is there because it had a deep water ice free port.  They built & blasted the railroad tunnel to bring the men & equipment to build the port & house all the
military.

Not only is it used for cars but for trains too!! We went up to take a hike to horsetail Creek.  It was all gravel & I had sandals on. The black flies were bothersome so we came back out.
  1. I know this looks like a scene from Paradise Island but we took this when we were coming back from the walk.  The water is that blue!!
We had lunch at Anchor Inn which is one of the buildings built during the war.  It is a restaurant now but used to be an army Building


We went to the Prince William Sound Museum.  It had a lot of history about when the Japanese occupied Attu & Adek in the Aleutian Islands (scary) as well as info on Whittier



Here's a couple of the only 6 war buildings left standing after the 1964 earthquake.




In the background is that huge condo. That is where most of the population lives.  Whittier is so small & very thin between the mountains & the water

We next went down to the harbor.  The docks & everything was totally destroyed after the earthquake & following Tsunami






 That was a fish I was posing with but Steve's finger covered it up.


We had a nice dinner at " The Inn at Whittier."




We were waiting to go back through the tunnel & these falls were on the side of the road.

So ends this day.

1 comment:

  1. Again, so lovely your surroundings.....you both are certainly seeing so much....

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