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Introduction
Part of our holiday included a six day land tour from Seward to Denali National Park during the period 9th - 15th July 2004.
Day 4 (Denali to Talkeetna)
We set off after breakfast for a natural history tour into part of Denali National Park. The driver of the park bus had an obvious sense of humour which was evident throughout his running commentary, maintaining a watch for bears and moose and telling jokes!
We stopped off at a log cabin to have a reinactment by a young man of life in that part of the world during the early 1940's. The drive then continued up into the hills where the forest gave way to permafrost ground. A further stop was made to hear about life from a first nation perspective, whilst taking in the otherwise peaceful setting. Alas, after returning to the McKinley Park Resorts, this tour had still not enabled us to see any moose or bear!
 After lunch we travelled back by motor coach to Talkeetna arriving at the Alaskan Lodge around tea-time. The journey was excellent and accompanied by a lot of laughter, particularly during a drawing game run by our Tour Director Jesse called 'Moose Migration' - it produced some very funny pictures!
That night we were rewarded with some excellent views from the lodge of Mounts McKinley, Foraker and Hunter as the sun was setting.
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