 Anchorage - Phoebes on bike |
 1964 Earthquake Park |
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 Chugach Mts, near Anchorage |
 Healy, near Denali |
 Our cabin |
 Henry's coffeehouse |
 View from our cabin |
 Tundra at 10:30 pm |
 Down the road (Stampede Trail) from the lodge |
 Young bull moose |
 John, the lodge owner, showing his sled dogs |
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 The sled dog kennel |
 Denali |
 After 5 minutes on the park road |
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 First view of Denali |
 Polychrome Overlook |
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 The park road - no cars! |
 Eilson visitor center - closest to McKinley |
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 Taiga |
 Denali from the south |
 Denali from the south - north and south peaks |
 The Alaska Range |
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 Savage River |
 Ptarmigan on the tundra |
 Marmot |
 Black spruce |
 Tundra climate change research |
 Tundra climate change research |
 Tundra climate change research |
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 Our Seward house |
 Cheeky chick in tub |
 Seward |
 Halibut and salmon that we didn't catch |
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 Parasitic shelf fungus |
 Fern with sori |
 Kenai mist |
 Bear glacier |
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 Holgate glacier calving |
 Holgate glacier |
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 Surprise glacier |
 Sea otter snacking in Seward Harbor |
 Tufted puffin, Resurrection Bay |
 Stellar's sea lions, Kenai Fjords Nat Park |
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 Common murres |
 Sea lion branded? shaved? probably for research |
 Puffin colony |
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 Kenai Fjords |
 Moon jellies |
 Sea life center in Seward |
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 Horned puffin |
 Tufted puffin |
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 Eye closed - transparent nictitating membrane to see underwater |
 Exit Glacier - sign marks where it ended in 1926 |
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 Glacial erratic w/ striations |
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 Glacial erratic |
 Primary ecological succession |
 Our Homer house |
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 The Homer Spit |
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 Deadliest Catch captain Jonathan |
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 Volcano sunset (10 pm) |
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 Kayaking Kachemak Bay |
 Sea Otter snoozing |
 Ken ( Emerald Air) and Mt. Augustine Volcano |
 Katmai Nat Park |
 Katmai |
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 Katmai tundra hiking |
 Griz scat |
 Mama and cub, Katmai |
 Katmai brown (Grizzly) bear |
 Hunting salmon |
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 The cub begging |
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 The mother won't give it to the cub, the cub needs to take it from her |
 Mama sharing with the cub |
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 Leftovers |
 Chris, our guide with Phoebes |
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 The cub begs to nurse and they go off into the brush |
 Saw about 50 bears along the river that day |
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 The hunt |
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 Sockeye salmon moving upriver to spawn |
 Looks like easy pickins... |
 ....but they often miss |
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 At the edge of the river - we hunkered down and bears moved by as close as 15-20 feet |
 Phyl, stay there so I can get a close up of you two |
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 Moving by us at about 15 feet - she's got an eye on us |
 Sockeye spawning |
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 Steaming Mt Augustine from the air |
 Just what are they doing under there? |
 Ahhh, shielding their video game screens from that annoying Alaska sun and those annoying spectacular views |