Some pictures from Alaska

Here are a few pictures from Alaska. I will be posting only scenery and wild life and as less as possible of Homosapiens.
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 International Airport Road in Anchorage Alaska is the largest and busiest floatplane bases in the world. Outer perimeter of the lake/hangar





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 ;)