Travel Tuesday featuring more images taken outside of New England on the Alaska trip. Day 5 we woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Wasilla. We decided to head North to Talkeetna for a chance to see Mount Denali. It was about a 90 minute drive, but the further North we drove, the sky became mostly cloudy which dashed our hopes of seeing the mountain.
We stopped along the way to see a few sea planes.
Downtown Talkeetna
This is where we would have seen Mount Denali if the clouds weren't there. The river was very high and rushing, as there had been a lot of recent heavy rainfall in the area.
We visited Alaska Wild Harvest Shop, which is a producer of Birch Syrup. As a New Englander, and a self proclaimed real maple syrup snob, I was very interested in seeing how birch syrup is produced, as well as having a taste test. The taste was not what I expected. To me, it had a strong flavor similar to balsamic vinegar. It's cetainly not something you would want to put on your pancakes, but I think it would probably make a good glaze when cooking salmon or chicken.
We learned that it takes 100 gallons of birch sap to make one gallon of birch syrup, unlike here in New England, it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. The process of making birch syrup is very similar to the process used in making maple syrup.
Although these buckets were just for "show" , it was interesting to see birch tree tapped with sap buckets as opposed to the maple tress we are used to seeing.
Delicious dinner that evening. Seafood stuffed halibut for me, and chicken parmesan for Mr S.
Cheers!
I didn't take too many photos on this particular day, but stay tuned for some beautiful Alaskan photos in the upcoming blog posts.
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