Ditto Eagle River Beach

Fireweed going to seed at Eagle Beach Boy Scout Meadow

Like I mentioned earlier in a blog a couple of days ago, I hadn’t spent a whole lot of recreational time outdoors in Juneau (except when I had my landscaping company 25 years ago – but this doesn’t count because I was running a landscape business; it was not necessarily leisure). When the Bill of Rights celebrated it’s 100-year anniversary (1996?), they celebrated it in Juneau because the U.S. Government deemed this place the most beautiful capital city in the U.S. – really? You mean Honolulu is not more beautiful? – After romping through the forests, beaches and mountains of Juneau this past Summer, I too deem this place the most beautiful capital city in the States!

There are few ways to survive the weather in Juneau: 1). get out in the weather for a walk, hike, whatever, every day, 2) attend all the social & cultural activities that interest you, 3) get into doing some kind of art that pleases your soul, and/or 4) spend time with the very young and the very old. I recommend all of the above. Please share if you have any other suggestions!

Eagle Beach Boys Scout Camp Meadow stretches about a square mile wouldn't you say?

Nagoon Berry at Eagle Beach

If you ever receive a jar of Nagoon-berry jelly from someone, you must be really, doggone special to that person because it isn’t easy to find this berry in the Juneau area anymore…I found two little berries this day I was at Eagle River. Berry folk like myself know this is the best berry in the world – and we’ve got fields of these gems in specific areas in the northern part of Southeast Alaska. Dundas Bay (part of Glacier Bay National Park) is a great spot; the berry stalks are taller than any of us have ever seen in the Juneau area!