Hope Highway

As we sat along the coast four miles up from Hope waiting for the bore tide, I snapped one of the shores.

All along the bays of Knik arm and Turnagain Arm, when the tide is out there are extensive mud flats that are like quicksand, that will suck in and bury a person who ventures out at the wrong time.  Therefore we were surprised to see this guy nonchalantly taking his board out to ride the bore tide wave.  He came back alive!

Here's one of the buildings that fell into disrepair after the 1964 earthquake.  The land fell four feet.  It has now been resurrected, and had customers eating on the deck the whole time we visited the town of Hope.  

Seaview Cafe in Hope, Alaska

Along the road heading back to Seward Highway-it's so great to have the highways known by names rather than numbers-the Cow Parsnips were in full bloom.  I do believe it's the same plant that is known by common name of Pushkie here (spelling?).  We were warned about them several times while hiking; they have a juice that if it gets on one's skin which is then exposed to sunshine, it will (or can) cause blistering.  Sounds like what poison ivy does without the sunshine.

Helen