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Julie and Jason at the Flattop lookout - one last view before we put her on a plane back to lower 48
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Julie in downtown Anchorage - we got a sunny day to stroll around
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Jason had to sing a Seamus song with him
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Hobo Jim at the Yukon Bar in Seward on a Sunday night
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watch out for that stuffed bear!
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those McEachen kids clowing around
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unfortunately the clouds didn't lift that day so Julie didn't get to see the full majesty of the area around Seward
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horned puffins
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Murre - this bird looks like a penguin and acts like a penguin, but lives in Alaska and is NOT a penguin
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Puffin in flight - they actually fly pretty awkward in air - they are made to fly in water
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bird in flight
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see the AK starfish? orange and purple
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this group had some active sea lions in the water
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who's the king?
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Lazy Sea Lions
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as we moved away from the face, we could see the glacier goes on quite a ways - and meets up with the Harding Icefield
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lots of cracks mean future ice bergs in waiting
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boom
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here goes another section - like a big ice fall
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amazing - nature at work
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boom - we got some ripples
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big splash in water
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here it goes...
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this section was active - calving quite a bit (that means ice was dropping off)
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we were there too
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Julie and the glacier
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thousands of years of layers
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pretty blue ice and may layers (gray is often volcano ash)
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the blue sky peaked out for us
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Julie has some glacier ice in her hand - Jason was sad he didn't have scotch with him (another time though)
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rugged glacier ice
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Aialak Glacier - first view from boat
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continues his search for food
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pretty black bear (across the water is close enough for us)
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he made it to the other side
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black bear swimming
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nice fluke
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another humpback whale
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tufted puffin
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goodbye whale
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hump back again
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moving along
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pretty fluke
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there's that hump back
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definitely a humpback whale - mostly resting though
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the whale peaked out - this move is called a "spyhop"
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a whale is nearby
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harbor seals
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Dall porpoises were active around our boat all day
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It's an All-American Highway for a reason
