This is a picture of the original dock before the 1964 earthquake which devastated the town of Valdez. Some of the remaining buildings and homes were moved to a new location which they called "new town." A whole new town was laid out and people were able to move their houses, if the houses were still intact, to the new location, which was on much more stable ground. This earthquake was a true definition of liquifaction. The ground was very soft and contained a lot of silt and other types of unstable soil from the Valdez Glacier. There was a lot of flooding for which they built dikes around the town. Anyway, the earthquake proved to be the final straw and the town was moved to a more stable location. 
Valdez Glacier -- gold rush miners actually hiked over this to get to gold country! Apparently it was the shortest route. Gold fever got the best of them!
I have never seen so many fish! We visited the fish hatchery below. The run of pink and red salmon was in full bloom! The fish were so thick you could hardly see the water.
We fished from the shore and got our limit of 6 for a total of 7.9 pounds of fish after cleaning. Took them to be vacumn packed and flashed freezed. I hope I can fit them into my freezer! Will pick up tomorrow and be on our way to Tok, Alaska for overnight then heading down toward Haines and Skagway, Alaska.
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