We left camp and drove about 50 miles down the road to the USFS Tenderfoot Creek Campground on Upper Summit Lake, still in the Chugach National Forest. This campground is a few miles before the Seward turnoff. We have site number 1 overlooking the lake. We decided to take a drive and went back about 10 miles to the Hope turnoff. At one of the pull offs we talked to a really nice couple from Belgium about beer and politics. We drove down to Hope and into the USFS Porcupine Campground. Vickie and Lowell stayed here a couple of nights. From there you could view the Turnagain Arm and its mud flats. This place has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world, and one of a few bodies of water that has a tidal bore (a tidal wave that travels against the current.) Turnagain Arm got its name from William Bligh (of Mutiny on the Bounty fame). He was Captain Cook's sailing master. In searching for a northwest passage Cook's ships sailed up the Cook Inlet and its two arms. The Knik Arm was found to end in a river, and when they discovered that the other inlet also led to a river they had to turn around again.
We went into the old town of Hope and went to Resurrection Creek where a lot of people were fishing for salmon. Most everyone had a stringer of fish. This is where Phil and Mary took us fishing last time we were up here and I caught a salmon. We had a couple of beers at Seaview Bar and talked to the fishermen. The bartender told us that the Chugach-Resurrection Pass Recreational Area was a place you could pan for gold. We tried again. I don't have any patience for it, just like trying to dig for diamonds in Arkansas. Too hard on the knees. We went back to camp and I fixed dinner.
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