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you can see at least 3 at surface this round
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don't know a whole lot about belugas - not sure what is poking up
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they were traveling - not feeding or jumping - but it was still neat to watch them
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we think there was 4 traveling together -we saw them just past "Beluga Point"
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coming up for air
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oh yeah - there was seal too!
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belugas are white (from Russian word) or a grayish color
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more wildlife - beluga whales!
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probably a curious child
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dall sheep down by the road - we pulled over to take pix
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evidence of fall - colors are starting to change
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more ghost forests (from earthquake)
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it's beautiful up here - come visit
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my favorite animal
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even the ducks were happy
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porcupine
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mother and child
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a female elk with 2 kids in tow
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bluff charge - still kind of scary
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is he charging? I don't care if there is a fence - I moved
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he spotted someone (me) checking out his harem
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The bull elk (biggest in the deer family besides moose)
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elk herd coming up over the hill
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reading about the animals at the conservation center
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fireweed
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What a great Labor Day!
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life is good :)
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how about a dip in the pond?
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now what?
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time for rest
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happy bear
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this brown bear was just chillin - soakin up some Vitamin D
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check out those claws!
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this brown bear was getting fed hamburgers by a worker
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more glaciers in view
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bison relaxing on a sunny day - they are eventually sent to repopulate a bison herd in the Aleutians
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Were Santa's reindeer female?
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mug shot of a caribou - she was curious (yes, female caribou have antlers too - they actually keep them longer than males)
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this caribou seemed to be posing for us (great background, eh?)
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Caribou - did you know reindeer are domesticated caribou?
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shaking it off
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Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (our destination for this Labor Day)
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black bear up close (on other side of a fence)
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baby musk ox - all the animals are injured or orphaned at this center
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this one has shed the velvet in anticipation of rutting season
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this moose still has the velvet on his antlers
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Remains from the 1964 earthquake - from the destroyed town of Portage (moved inland after the quake)
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beautiful wilderness
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Bison - this image makes me think of the song "American the Beautiful"
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the dead trees are remnants of the 1964 earthquake
