harbor seals
Dall porpoises were active around our boat all day
It's an All-American Highway for a reason
Seward Highway - the one road south of Anchorage - crappy views!
train returning to take us back to Anchorage
mom with the sled dogs
there was a bear near the lodge but we didn't see it
modeling the antlers
keep exploring
just the 4 of us
it didn't rain all day, but it was at the end of the road
mom and dad at Wonder Lake
Denali is back there behind the clouds
quite a different view than when I was standing here 6 years ago
caribou antlers
moose antlers
mom liked the mew gulls
on the banks of Horseshoe - no moose in sight right now :(
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more hiking around Horseshoe Lake
mom and dad relaxing on the train ride to Denali
one of the black bears at the zoo (all the animals are orphaned or injured)
time to get up - yawn
this grizzly was resting too (this one was raised with the polar bear at the zoo)
another wild animal
the polar bear was resting
mug shot of an alpaca
tiger - they are arctic tigers from Asia (really pretty)
Alaska Zoo - this bear was tuckered out (look at the claws on that grizzly)
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
so a few decades ago Robert Burns Glacier (left) and Portage Glacier (right) touched - but did not mix
mom at Portage Glacier
jagged blue
pretty blue glow
wow - look at it all
glacial ice up close
alligator iceberg
look at the deep blue
pretty glacier blue (compressed ice does that)
jagged ridges of the glacier
looking at ice
wide angle view of the glacier
thousands of years of snow (now it's ice, but still)
first look at Portage Glacier
everythings melting in July (but this valley gets at least 40 ft of snow in winter!)
this iceberg was a "shooter" a couple days before (means it broke off below water and "shot" up)
mom on the boat with a chunk of ice
the glacier you do see is called Robert Burns Glacier
first look at Portage Lake (you can't see Portage Glacier from here)
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