Archive for 2013

Caribou

Friday, November 29th, 2013

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We spent our last several days in Alaska at the Kantishna Roadhouse in Denali National Park. The lodge is a 6-hour bus ride from the village of Denali Park through some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. As we got close to the lodge, this Caribou posed for some pictures.

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Kachemak Bay

Friday, November 22nd, 2013

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While we were in Homer, Alaska, we stayed in a motel at the end of the Homer Spit — a 4.5 mile-long bit of land that sticks out into Kachemak Bay. This was taken just below our balcony. The mountains in the background are on the other side of Kachemak Bay, about a 30-minute trip via water taxi.  We took the trip over one day and hiked up to Glacier Lake (below). We capped-off the day with dinner at the Saltry in Halibut Cove before catching the water taxi back to Homer.

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Horned Puffin

Friday, November 15th, 2013

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While we were at the Silver Salmon Creek Lodge, we took a boat trip up to Duck Island (part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge) to photograph puffins. The weather was a bit iffy when we started out, but cleared as we approached the island. We found both Horned Puffins and and Tufted Puffins, as well as Black-legged Kittiwakes, Glaucous-winged Gulls, Cormorants, Murres and a host of other birds that use Duck Island and it’s larger neighbor, Chisik Island, as a rookery.

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