JUL 31, 21 .. A WONDERFUL SATURDAY ..

As many of you know, I have been in a bit of a slump. 

"Oh Come On Captain! Slump? You might as well say that the atomic bomb was just another loud firecracker."

Our friend Gullible's advice : Step outside, get in your truck, take a drive, look around, take photos, post them here for all to see.

Thank You So Very Much Gullible!

Once again, Patti and I, this afternoon, did just that. 

Today we had a little help-from-our-friends! We were invited to attend a picnic.

So at 1:30pm this afternoon, we joined our friends at a picnic. It was located at the Valley of The Moon Park, here in Anchorage.

VALLEY OF THE MOON PARK 

If you look over the top of the sign in the below photo, you can see the picnic in the distance.

To protect the anonimity of the attendees, we opted not to show close-up photos of the picnic.

The below photo was taken as the picnic was winding down. 

At 4pm the picnic was over, the clean up crew had completed their tasks, and all in attendance had left.

Patti and I had a wonderful time. The weather was absolutely perfect and we visited with friends (some of whom) that go back 30 years.

Standing at the below entrance sign, if you turn 90° to your right,

You see another section of the rather large Park.

Notice another smaller picnic in progress to the right in the below photo.

On the extreme left edge of the below photo, in the distance, you can see where our picnic was located.

Yes! The park-was-jumping on this wonderful afternoon!

We two came home to our condo and enjoyed a wonderful Costco Chicken Salad.

"Patti, it is such a gorgeous day, would you like to drive down Turnagain Arm to Beluga Point?" 

And out and off we went heading South down the Seward Higway to Beluga Point.

BELUGA POINT

If you look very closely at the below photo, in the distance on the right you can see our white Chevrolet Surburban. A visitor wearing a bright blue shirt is standing beside it.

Now we are at our truck.

In the back of our truck, we have a very comfortable, full length, twin bed mattress. I slept for over an hour while Patti enjoyed reading a book.

Even large motor homes can find a place to park here at Beluga Point.

Now a look at some of the Beluga Point scenery.

On the East side of the Seward Highway is a rock outcrop formed when they constructed the highway.

A picnic with friends and a nice drive. It doesn't get too much better than this!

Patti and Cap

JUL 28, 21 .. A LOOK BACK IN TIME AT THE TAJ MAHAL

I don't believe that too many of you following along here look through The Subject Index along the right side of this website to find older Posts you would like to see again. Perhaps many of you don't know how to search The Subject Index. 

At this point in time, I have nine hundred (900) Posts here on this website that I call blogspot. I myself, the author and creator of the Posts, can't begin to remember them all. But I do know how to search for them by topic.

My Rhetorical Question is this : Is a Post of this nature, one referring back to an older Post via a link that you can easily click onto, a better option than no Post at all?

I can't answer that question for anyone. So this is a 'trial balloon' to see if anyone takes advantage of the idea of offering you a way to easily look back at older Posts.

My first offering is to offer you another look at the magnificent Taj Mahal in Agra, India. 

All you have to do is to click onto the below link and Voila! You will see The Taj Mahal in all of its splendor. By the way, the below Post is one of twenty Posts of The Taj Mahal. I have saved you a lot of time exploring them to pick one I particularly like.

http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/search/label/Taj%20Mahal

I hope you like this option to go back in time to see various Posts.

Cap

JUL 25, 21 .. TURNAGAIN ARM OF COOK INLET .. BIRD POINT

Yes indeed. No doubt about it. Some of you are going to get tired of, and bored with, the below words, words that I have now posted on three consecutive Posts here on blogspot.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Meister Eckhart

Thank goodness for friends. 

Gullible is her name. 

I have been in a bit of a slump. Oh Come On Captain! You might as well say that the atomic bomb was just another loud firecracker.

Gullible's advice : Step outside, get in your truck, take a drive, look around, take photos, post them here for all to see.

Thank You So Very Much Gullible!

So? 

Patti and I, once again, this afternoon, did just that. 

We got into our truck and took a drive down the Seward Highway, along The Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet, to Bird Point about 30 miles South of Anchorage.

The two of us have not driven down here in several years. In fact we can't clearly recall when our last drive was. Our best guess would be during the Summer of 2018.

The below link will show you Bird Point. You can manipulate the map with your computer's mouse and the + and - buttons to see where Anchorage is (to the left) relative to Bird Point.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seward+Hwy,+Seward,+AK/@60.958588,-149.4579995,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x56c7c4e3038e1e99:0x3a8deda80b6d3e65!8m2!3d60.134641!4d-149.4260705

We have arrived at Bird Point.

It is SO amazingly, breath takingly beautiful, here in Alaska, during the Summer!

A few photos of the walk into the viewing area of Bird Point.

Now we are going back-in-time.

The below link will take you to our dot.net Post dated October 6, 2013. In our October 6th 2013 Post we explained what a Bore Tide (or Tidal Bore) is.

http://babakaps.net/?p=6524

As we wrote in the above Post, to view a Bore Tide is a combination of studying Tide Tables and pure luck.

"Patti! What on earth are all of these people doing here?"

"Cap! I think that they are watching for an oncoming Bore Tide!"

And so they were. Yes! We saw the Bore Tide but this is not the perfect location because you are quite far away from the water. Not having a powerful telephoto camera lens, I did not get any photos. Go back to the above dot.net link and you will see how much closer we were at that time.

Along the walkway into the main viewing area are numerous information displays.

Gullible says : Step outside, get in your truck, take a drive, look around, take photos, post them here for all to see.

Thank You So Very Much Gullible!

Good-Bye Bird Point

Patti and Cap