Douglas Island

A walk in the forest

Another rainy day here in Juneau....did I mention that is rains here a lot? And if it's not raining it's cloudy and grey? Well, rain clouds and all the boys drove over the bridge to Douglas Island. It's a 42 mile, narrow island that lies across the channel from Juneau. We hiked through a very pretty temperate rain forest type climate. The boys were concerned about mosquitoes when they got out of the car and say one so I had to break out their bug netting. I did try and convinced them that there weren't any bugs down by the water (there weren't!) but the bug netting didn't come off. Lot's of nice pictures of kids covered in netting. We could hear Eagles in the trees behind the beach but only saw one flying around. It's pretty funny....the eagles are everywhere...you can always find a few off the road hanging out in the tidal river areas.

Boys on "Barnacle Island"

View of Mendenhall Glacier from across the channel

Collector of shells On his path into the sea

What do you do with all those old skis?