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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

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    Seward Highway - the one road south of Anchorage - crappy views!

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    train returning to take us back to Anchorage

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    mom with the sled dogs

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    there was a bear near the lodge but we didn't see it

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    modeling the antlers

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    keep exploring

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    just the 4 of us

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    it didn't rain all day, but it was at the end of the road

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    mom and dad at Wonder Lake

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    Denali is back there behind the clouds

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    quite a different view than when I was standing here 6 years ago

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    caribou antlers

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    moose antlers

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    mom liked the mew gulls

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    on the banks of Horseshoe - no moose in sight right now :(

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    more hiking around Horseshoe Lake

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    mom and dad relaxing on the train ride to Denali

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    one of the black bears at the zoo (all the animals are orphaned or injured)

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    time to get up - yawn

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    this grizzly was resting too (this one was raised with the polar bear at the zoo)

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    another wild animal

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    the polar bear was resting

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    mug shot of an alpaca

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    tiger - they are arctic tigers from Asia (really pretty)

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    Alaska Zoo - this bear was tuckered out (look at the claws on that grizzly)

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    leaving Whittier - the longest train/car tunnel in the world - only one lane so we had to wait for the trian to get out first

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    so a few decades ago Robert Burns Glacier (left) and Portage Glacier (right) touched - but did not mix

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    mom at Portage Glacier

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    jagged blue

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    pretty blue glow

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    wow - look at it all

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    glacial ice up close

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    alligator iceberg

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    look at the deep blue

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    pretty glacier blue (compressed ice does that)

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    jagged ridges of the glacier

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    looking at ice