Tropical Alaska or Look at the Canadian carrying his coat everywhere!

Today was a bit of a rest day for us. We are still waking up before 6:00 am. We transferred to our tour hotel this morning, the beautiful Sophie Station Suites Hotel.  Our room is the size of my son Ryan's condo in Toronto, even with a very similar layout.

We rested for most of the morning and afternoon, then met some other travellers from our tour, including a couple from the Isle of Man, UK. We will certainly find out more about them in the coming days.

Today has been another warm day so at around 4:00 pm Barb and I decided to find some local wildlife areas here in Fairbanks. Knowing we likely would be out until 8 or 9 pm we took some warmer clothes. Barb took a sweater top and I took my fall jacket that I would normally wear back home in October or November. I carried this jacket around with me all day, it is now 9:00 PM and still 19 degrees Celsius here. The sun won't set for another hour or more. This is what the sky in Fairbanks was like for the whole day.

We wanted to visit a local wildlife sanctuary but our shuttle bus driver suggested we visit a migratory waterfowl refuge called Creamer's Field. WOW we came all this way to see a farmers field full of Sandhill Cranes and.... wait for it...Canada Geese!  This is why we take an organized tour when we travel.

So not many pictures today, but tomorrow our tour starts with a 3 hour river cruise here in Fairbanks followed by a tour and time to spend in the downtown area.  I'm not sure if I'm going to bring my jacket.