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![]() ![]() Alaska - May 2007(Click on pictures for full-size image)The view of the Chugach Mountains from our room at the conference hotel in Anchorage![]()
One of the trip highlights was riding a tandem along the coastal trail in Anchorage - we'd been meaning to try a tandem for years, finally got around to it! Definitely a very interesting/learning (and communication-fostering!) experience!![]()
One area we rode by (and got lost in) on the way back was Hood Lake, the world's largest float-plane airport. (The shore was dotted with hundreds of float planes / floats / etc)![]()
The view driving south on the Seward Highway towards Whittier![]()
Portage Lake![]()
Waiting to drive through the tunnel to Whittier. The town of Whittier was established in WWII as a remote military base that received supplies via a railroad tunnel bored through the mountain. This tunnel was re-fitted in 2000 to allow (one-way at a time) car traffic, and the town now serves as a base for glacier boat tours in the Prince William Sound.![]()
The old military building that everyone in town lived in during WWII. They haven't been able to tear it down because of asbestos/environmental issues... ouch!![]()
Checking out glaciers in Prince William Sound on the catamaran glacier tour![]()
Just a "tad breezy" on the top deck. And cold - *quite* cold!![]()
Quite a few sea otters hanging out on the ice![]()
A couple of bald eagles hanging out on some ice. We'd never actually seen a bald eagle in the wild before, but what they say about Alaska is true - they're all over the place! At one point on the drive to Homer we saw over 20 circling in one spot!![]()
A sea-bird rookery (eagle food? ;) )![]()
Wandering out to the Exit Glacier in Seward. Definitely a late spring in Alaska (did I mention it was chilly?). Chen-Nee deserves credit for wandering out on a snowy trail at 10pm in fading light and noone else around :)![]()
"Chilly" became "chilly and raining," so we spent the morning at the sealife center in Seward. The tufted puffins were hilarious...![]()
... and the bird that looked a little like a tropical fish was also eye-catching.![]()
From Seward we drove down to Homer, and out to the end of Homer Spit (a big halibut-fishing area during summer - cold and windy for us in mid-May)![]()
Homer Spit from the ridge road![]()
Road-side wildlife along the ridge road![]()
On the way back from Homer we took a side-route (on a dirt road) to Skilak Lake - beautiful scenery with the light green of glacier run-off. We decided to eat lunch on the shore, only to jump back into the car a few minutes later to eat there instead (brrr!)![]()
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