Floating over Anchorage

A day off in Anchorage gave us the usual opportunity to service the bikes - a replacement front rim had arrived via DHL from London (thanks West London Yamaha), to replace Caroline's bent, buckled, cracked but still quite serviceable (ahem) front wheel. The wheel was relaced in record time, to allow us the time to hire a float plane and go searching for glaciers and wildlife.

Apart from a solitary moose, we were only successful in glacier spotting.

Interesting fact, in Anchorage at 2 airfields there are over 5000 private light aircraft! Once in the air you could see many, many more airfields - public, private, single ownership, subdivisons. One local reckoned that 13% of Alaskans have a pilots licence, and more can actually fly.

At the 'air-lake' we spotted this interesting float-plane launching device (I guess Alaskans get bored in the long cold winter)

Our float plane for the afternoon;

The 'air-lake';

and the glacier;