But wanted to share one funny thing. When we flew my son looked down on the land from the plane after take off and said - "Mom - look down ! Doesn't it look like a big brocoli" And all the trees did look like brocoli from up there :)
Seward
Mountain Goat from the Fjordboat
Orcas
Glacier
Humpback whale
Sea Lions
A brief Stop On the road to Denali.
Denali
Moose
Moose crossing!
Bear crossing!
Mist covered mountains
At wonder lake
Fox
Fox crossing! Seems like every animal crosses the path of the shuttle bus except the bipeds. Come to think of it we did have one case when we had some bipeds crossing too lol! But I did not take a photo of that!
The Nenana river where we went rafting. My elder son went "rafting" where he paddled while we went "scenic rafting" where we just got to sit and see because my other son was under the age limit of 12
One final crossing - but this was not in front of the shuttle bus but at Healy a town next to the National Park
Dog sled show
Hatcher Pass - view from our cabin
Same view from outside
At 4.00 am
Closer look at the sun shining on the mountains. Land of the Midnight sun indeed
Independence mine - Hatcher Pass
I once saw a movie of Clint Eastwood with a view like this of a mine
Ground in Alaska. It is spongy to walk on . The mountain greenery is this and not grass
Anther view of the old mine
Our cabin
wild flower
Couldn't resist trying out the shutter speed lessons. Candice you will be proud of your student lol
Here is fast shutter speed
An slow shutter speed
can you smell the clean air by the stream?
Musk Ox farm at Palmer, Alaska - a town just 10 miles from Wasilla ;) Sarah Palin's town and No did not see her house or her
Musk Ox
Some facts I gleaned - Musk Ox sheds the inner fur which is collected by combing and the resulting expensive wool is called - qiviut. A small scarf made from this costs about 300 dollars
A yearling who loves to be fed dandelions
At the Alaskan zoo, Anchorage on the last day of our trip
Alapaca
Brown bear! Which lead to the argument with my son about Brown bear and Grizzly. He said it is one and the same. But here is the actual fact - Grizzlies are a "race" of Brown bear. So All Grizzlies are Brown Bears but not all Brown Bears are Grizzlies. So guess I won
This one looks so cute hugging the tree while asleep. Yep! but certainly do not want to meet him up close when he is awake lol
Float plane at Lakehood float plane base
Lake Hood Seaplane Base off Internatio
Landing of a float plane
So that's just a few photos from my trip - Yep as I have tons more with and without my family members in it ;)