A Trip on Discovery, Aug 23, 2010

Loved the dog across the road from us.  There is almost more hanging off the chair than on it.

Today we took the Riverboat Discovery Boat Cruise. 

As you can see, it was a sunny bright day and we were able to get seats on the top deck.

 

 

 

 

As part of the boat tour, we were able to watch a bush pilot take off and land right next to the boat.

Next, was a stop along the river where the Susan Butcher’s Iditarod champion sled dogs were. 

  This next photo is of the team on the go.  These sled dogs just LOVE to pull.

This is what the brochure says is the “wedding of the rivers”, the clear water of the Chena flows into the world’s greatest glacier-fed Tenana River.

Next the boat stopped at Chena Village, which resembles an Athabascan Indian Village from the early 1900’s.

This young lady showed us the dog food cut for this salmon.  It is filleted leaving it attached somehow?, dried, then smoked.  One fish per dog per day.

 

 

 

 

Just loved this fur coat. 

An Athabascan type of teepee (spruce poles with caribou hides), with a birch bark canoe in the background.

Bob and I really loved the sled dog area.  We both got a chance to pet these dogs.  All the dogs were very slim, even though they eat three pounds of food twice a day, and that’s their summer diet.

This is Lance Mackey, 4 time winner of the Iditarod.  He was at the Discovery Center Gift Shop doing a photo op and book signing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is Bob standing on the runners of the Iditarod winning sled of Lance Mackey. We were told this sled cost $3500.

Here is the home of a retired airline pilot.

It was a great day for our Riverboat Discovery boat tour.