This morning we woke up at 6:30AM, knowing that the ferry would leave at 8AM. We still wanted to go to the Killer Whale Café to have breakfast! It was really tasty :-)
So we ate fast and drove down to the ferry terminal to check in. The guests in front of us were rebooked... we did not quite understand why... but then it dawned on us (a bit late :) ):
"Due to the bad weather conditions, 14 feet waves, the ferry is cancelled and all passengers will be rebooked on the next ferry"
Aha!!
But then, when is the next ferry?
"Friday morning"
And what day is it today? (We tend to forget that... :D )
"Wednesday"
??!! Are we going to be stuck on this island for two entire days? (it is not really an island obviously, but it feels like an island because it's so remote... :-) )
Where will we sleep? The ferry company doesn't pay for overnights, so we booked a cabin (like the Mc Kinley one) for tomorrow night... just need to find a place to sleep for tonight... guess we'll just keep on looking :-)
So what is there to do for us here? N O T H I N G :-)
Well no, we could go back to the Orca café, have breakfast again at the Killerwhale Café, eat AGAIN at Baja Taco's or Ambrosia's, see Childs Glacier AGAIN... :-) We'll see...
At least the weather's not as stormy as yesterday but still... it hasn't stopped raining!
Guess we'll just have to skip our trip to the Kennecott Mine in Wrangell St. Elias National Park and proceed directly through Delta Junction to Chena Hot Springs... that's too bad, because it's supposed to be a really neat place to hike and raft...
We'll keep you posted :-)
("Come on D, let's have another coffee... WHY? ... Because now we have loooaads of time on our hands" :D )
Take care y'all!
AnD
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| Davy and me @ Baja Taco's... it's heated, got free wifi, drinks and food :-) |
Well, I guess in the meantime you have studied the artifacts one by one in the museum on 1st street! :..))
ReplyDeleteYou can do what the Alaskans do; fish and hunt! ;-))
ReplyDeleteIf it's any consolation, the weather in Luxembourg for my week long vacation hasn't been too cooperative either.
ReplyDeleteJust do what I do on long train rides (and trust me, I have experience): Look out the window, do nothing and enjoy. It's good practice for when you retire one day :)
@ all: after spending most of the afternoon at the Alaskan (local bar), we managed to get in touch with a couchsurfer from Cordova (by using the bartender's i-phone) :-)
ReplyDeleteso he told us at 5PM that he'd come pick us up!! :-)
Big smile on our faces, WE FOUND A PLACE TO SLEEP :-)
tonight we'll be spending at Skater cabin, another wooden stove for Davy!
Plus we managed to change our trip so we could still go to Kennicott ghost town!
Let's just hope the ferry goes out tomorrow morning :D
Take care,
AnD
Wooden stove? Alaskans seem to be very ingenious when it comes to getting fires to burn well . . . but the only problem is the "wooden" stoves are for one use only :-))
ReplyDeleteHope you're on the way by now, "sea-ill" ? wishing to get off that shaking ferry? Enjoy tour trip
ReplyDelete@ Roby: You mean a "Weg-werf-Ofen"? :) Anne had even asked me if it were a wood oven or wooden oven... ;)
ReplyDelete@ Marc: Lucky us, no one had "allergies to the motion"!
We're back in Valdez, hurray!