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Stika from Afar |
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Bustling downtown Sitka |
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Typical Alaska Morning in Sitka Harbor |
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Sitka Totem Park -- Our third Totem Park on this trip. |
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Training bear to teach children to be comfortable enough to approach and pet the real ones. |
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Just another bald eagle. They are as common as my Dad at a buffet. As common as bald men in Miami. |
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Sunrise on the Chatham Strait enroute from Tenekee to Sitka. 4 AM |
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Typical house in Tenekee Springs |
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Just another Orca... |
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Orcas at confluence of Icy and Chatham Straits. |
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Sitka Moose |
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Under Alaska Law Bears must label and date all their
droppings (scat).
Note the berries, grass, and piece of a human thumb. (Five feet from this glorious pile was one of those things that dispenses bags so you can pick up after your dog. Go figure?) |
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Mendenhall Glacier -- Hard to take a picture without hundreds of tourists in it. |
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Bare Armed Bear Bearing Arms -- God love America, Charleton Heston, and the NRA... |
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We told Ari there was a quarter under the rock... |
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This guy just wandered down the beach by our boat in Taku Harbor |
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This is all Alaska has to offer... |
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Killer whales and ice bergs in one place. Too cool |
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Tracy Arm Bergies -- The icepack eventually prevented us from reaching the glacier. Still a great day. |
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Unlike wildlife, icebergs are easy to photograph. |
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Awash in the spray from a waterfall in Tracy Arm |
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It is just not that hard to avoid an iceberg-- It makes you wonder about those guys on the Titanic. Tracy Arm |
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Tracy Arm -- Eagles with cold feet. |
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Our little wilderness fishing chick |
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Sea Spirit in Wrangell Narrows as viewed from El Bucanero (owned by fellow San Diegans Brad and Darlene) |
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"Two Tree Island"
Not sure how they named it... |
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Jennifer with sea spirit in the background. (I should have never let her drive.) |
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Petroglyphs -- I think it is the work of pre-historic teenagers with too much time on their hand and no place to buy spraypaint. |
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The view from Petroglyph beach in Wrangell. Finally we are in "REAL" Alaska. |
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Is this a crack crew or a crew on crack? |
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A view of the Clarence Strait from Meyer's Chuck |
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McDonalds of the North |
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It was either this guy or me. |
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We have seen more bald eagles than my dad could eat in a single sitting. (These were viewed just a short drive outside of Ketchikan beyond the reach of the tourists.) |
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Good Ole Fashioned Ketchikan Flag Burning |
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Downtown Ketchikan |
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Ketchikan Arch -- Gateway to the Yukon |
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If one picture tells the Ketchikan story, this is it... |