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Eagle Preserve Wildl..River Adventure tour This time, we went out of our way to find our tour leader immediately. |
Beth My smiling wife. Yay! |
Mountain and Ships The ships actually seem impressively large from this angle, which of course they are. |
Helicopter Flying above us, it was a good indication that we were near civilization. |
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Trees and Mountains Playing with the lens, it was actually interesting to look at. |
Free-Standing Ships Awaiting a new Great Flood? |
Skagway Harbor Map We were there. You can tell, because of the red dot. |
Odd Graffiti Apparently, it's put there by the cruise ships. Odd. |
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Norwegian Sun It's back! Grr! |
Waterfall The waterfalls were gorgeous no matter where we went. |
Waterfall, II I just couldn't stop taking pictures of them. Grr! |
Eagle in a Tree Just a white dot in a forest, but it was obviously an eagle. |
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Seal Point There was a small rocky crag where a bunch of seals were hanging out. |
Seals Seals are so cute! |
Seals, II And they seemed at least vaguely interested in this ship full of people that was hanging out near them. |
Seals, III Yes, as usual, their eyes were a bit soulless... |
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Seals, IV ...but that doesn't make them not cute. |
Seals, V I was happy to have the proper lens out to take pictures of them, too. |
Landscape I like the depth of the multiple mountains. |
Seward This is where our trip to the actual river would begin. |
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Weenie Roast They fed us hot dogs, because it was a change from the standard cruise food. |
Glaciers Two small glaciers went down the nearby mountains. |
Patient Beth I need more in-focus shots of her. |
Animals Counts This is how many of each type of animal they'd seen in the last couple of years. A wolf? Really? |
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Our Bus It's the Blue Bird, but it's kind of muddy green. |
Mountain Goat Over on the left, there's a white dot. I have been assured that it's actually a mountain goat. |
Flying Swan Finally on the water, I now had a whole bunch of additional challenges to taking pictures. |
Flying Swans Focus is hard enough when you're not rocking back and forth every couple of seconds. |
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Flying Swans, II But I didn't do *too* badly at the whole thing anyway. |
Swimming Swans These guys were happier to see people, apparently, or at least more used to the boats. |
Swimming Swans, II I was at least able to get an adequate picture of them as we went by. |
Riverland I don't think this was anything in particular, but it shows off what most of the river looked like. |
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Distant Mountains You know, I don't think we actually saw any snow close-up during the trip! |
Cloudy Mountains Were they Misty, perhaps? |
The River It was apparently very shallow, but enough for the boats to go along. |
Eagle in a Tree Again The whole point of this preserve was to leave the land as natural as possible, for the eagles and other animals. |
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More Mountains They weren't trying to chase off tourism, just to make sure that it had very limited impact. |
Moose Spotting Behold, the frigging huge creature! |
Moose with Calves These guys were hanging out in the swamp-like area |
Moose with Calves, II But man, they were hard to take good pictures of! |
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Moose with Calves, III Getting it to focus through the trees was a challenge, but hey, those things were cool to look at! |
Fleeing Moose They weren't leaving very fast, but they were leaving. This was the best shot I ever got of 'em. |
Fleeting Moose, II We saw a total of 8 moose over the tour. |
Fleeing Moose, III Apparently, we managed to chase away all of the moose before the other boat, behind us, could see them. |
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Fleeing Moose, IV I think that engendered some kind of righteous bitterness. |
Closer Eagle This one was at least a lot closer, so I could get something resembling a good shot. |
Yearling Moose This was Moose #7, a yearling that was actually kind of curious as to our disposition. |
Yearling Moose, II This was my best chance at a spectacular shot, and I tried, but it didn't quite work out. |
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Yearling Moose, III But I'm still going to play with this shot and see what I can get... |
Fleeing Moose This was the eighth, and last, Moose, that was definitely afraid of us and getting the heck out of there. |
Fleeing Moose, II Yep, we're still here. |
Beaver Tree I think they killed it. |
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Eagle Nest I liked the eagle in the nest. Its mate was apparently nearby, but we didn't see it. |
More Swans Watching us go by, rather bored. |
Flying Eagle, I The white dot there is the eagle's tail feathers. |
Flying Eagle, II Over time, I got some better shots of it. |
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Flying Eagle, III And here it actually looks like an eagle. |
Landing Eagle Coming in for a landing. |
Resting Eagle Again, a pretty good shot, but not as good as I got in Ketchikan. |
Resting Eagle, II I can hardly feel like I was wasting film, though. Most people would kill for a shot this good. |
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More Mountains Landscapes are difficult to describe, but still pretty to look at. |
Eagle in the Sky Did I mention that there were a lot of eagles? |
Wind Boat I kindof wish we could have gone on one of these instead, but only because I've never been on. |
Wind Boat, II The lower capacity would have been sad. |
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Fort Seward Totem Pole Fort Seward had been set up to help defend the border against Canadian incursions after a gold rush. The town of Haines was built around it, and I got at least this picture of the old commons area. |
Isolated Houses That's definitely isolated. And kindof cool. |
Beth and Scenery *smile* There. A good shot of my love and life, finally. |
Kayaking Tour That just isn't our thing, but they looked happy enough. If cold. |
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More Foggy Mountains The photos will never do them justice, sadly. |
Tour Wharf All of the tours began from here, apparently. It was restricted, after all.. |
Haines, Again Another shot of the small city. |
Fort Seward This is most of the fort, around the central grassy area. It's mostly tourists and homes now. |
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Back on the Ship It was time for the return trip to Skagway. |
Waterfall I wanted multiple angles of this one, apparently. |
Waterfall, II At least it was one of the prettier ones we saw. |
Waterfall, III And others agreed with me. |
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Hunting for Mountain Goats I was told there was a white dot on there, but I don't see it anymore. |
Lone Eagle Another dot in the trees. It's probably a different one than before, though. |
Collapsed Tree I think what fascinates me about this picture is that it looks like it would work vertically as well. |
Forest of Trees Oh yeah, that's the definition of 'forest'. I forgot. |
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Glaciers and Trees Oh, nature, how pretty you are! |
Photographer on Board I wasn't alone on the ship, believe me. |
Another Helicopter I guess we're back! |
Sun Princess Yep. Back home we go! |
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