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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
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wide angle view of the glacier
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thousands of years of snow (now it's ice, but still)
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first look at Portage Glacier
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everythings melting in July (but this valley gets at least 40 ft of snow in winter!)
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this iceberg was a "shooter" a couple days before (means it broke off below water and "shot" up)
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mom on the boat with a chunk of ice
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the glacier you do see is called Robert Burns Glacier
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first look at Portage Lake (you can't see Portage Glacier from here)
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look...he found more to read
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mom and dad on Turnagin Arm - it was cloudy, but still picturesque
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mountains dump right into the ocean
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so many pretty sights
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the chunks of ice in front are icebergs broken off from glacier
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think our whale has friends
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the birds flying overhead gave away the whales location
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our captain was informed of whale activity just south of our course, so we headed down to check things out
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it cleared up to be a beautiful day
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salmon (look closely)
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another whale we saw later
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we stayed watching them for quite awhile
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they were cooperative feeding and putting on quite a show
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we figured out it was actually 3 humpback whales
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another mountain goat
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mountain goat
