Jeff Billimek’s Journal

It’s 7:17pm Alaska time, so it’s really 11:17pm Atlanta time.

We got up at 8am; each took a shower, and had breakfast at the B&B with two couples.

After breakfast we packed up and headed out to Russian Lake trail. The weather was iffy. It was overcast but not raining. We headed to the falls first. The falls were really spectacular. These big fish were jumping up the falls. It was really cool to watch them. Some of the fish were the big, bright-red salmon. After the falls, we continued to the lake. At the lake, Larry assembled his fishing gear and casted out a few times, but didn’t get any hits. While we were heading back to the trailhead, it started to rain lightly. While we got closer, the rain came down harder.

We had a late lunch and headed south towards Seward. On the way there, we stopped at Ptarmagain Lake trail and hiked it along the river a couple of miles before turning back.

After Ptarmagain Lake trail, we drove to the lodge we’ll be spending the next three nights. We each had a shower, got changed, and went into Seward for dinner. We ate at a seafood place called Ray’s. I had the halibut with almond crust and Larry had the halibut blackened style.