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Puffin in Alaska's Sitka Sound with text "Sitka's best wildlife tour"

A Whale’s Song: The best wildlife cruise in Sitka, Alaska

Posted onAugust 30, 2021June 26, 2022Leave a comment

If you really want to see wildlife, A Whale’s Song Expeditions offers the best wildlife cruise in Sitka, Alaska. All Whale’s Song tours include a comfortable and well-equipped boat with a knowledgeable and personable captain, Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USA

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Yua at the Heard: See Yup’ik masks and Matisse in Phoenix

Posted onJanuary 1, 2019October 20, 20222 Comments

January 2019 was your last chance to see Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit, a stunning exhibit of historic Alaskan Yup’ik masks and Matisse drawings influenced by them, at the Heard Museum in Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, Arizona, Phoenix, USATagsmuseums, Native America, traditional culture

Photo Thursday: Alaskan Summer Chiller

Posted onJuly 26, 2012December 14, 202112 Comments

It’s been hot – at least for Minnesota – this summer. I’m a big fan of both tropical islands (particularly ones with cool ocean breezes) and desert landscapes (especially in the cool season), but I’m Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USA

The Great Land: Alaska

Posted onSeptember 8, 2008June 11, 2021Leave a comment

Alaska Itinerary Day 1: Evening in Anchorage Apparently Denali is visible from the other side of the plane as we come into Anchorage. Even though we can’t see it, I’m taking that as a good Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USATagsitinerary

Details: Visiting Denali

Posted onSeptember 7, 2008July 17, 2020Leave a comment

On a clear day, the drive between Anchorage and Denali National Park is stunning. Plan to take your time and enjoy it, as many of your best views of Denali itself may be from the Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USA

Winging through the mountains over Alaska

Posted onSeptember 7, 2008July 17, 2020Leave a comment

There are too many boxes of fish and too much luggage scheduled to go out with us and the other couple on our flight. However, some judicious packing and an agreement to send the rest Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USA

Shore Leave in Glacier Bay, Alaska

Posted onSeptember 5, 2008December 11, 2020Leave a comment

We land on a gravel out-wash that is low, flat, and braided with leaping streams.   The stream itself seems to defy gravity, somehow leaping above the level where we stand watching it without ever Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USATagsUNESCO World Heritage, US National Parks

Glacier Gazing: Margerie and Grand Pacific

Posted onSeptember 5, 2008July 17, 2020Leave a comment

We motor along the rocky shore of the Tarr Inlet, passing more gouged and scoured rock that is being colonized by vibrant vegetation. Between the bright fall foliage along the rock face and the dark Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USATagsUNESCO World Heritage, US National Parks

Glacier gazing in Glacier Bay: Johns Hopkins

Posted onSeptember 5, 2008July 17, 2020Leave a comment

The landscape is fascinating, in some places raw and new-looking, as if just created. Of course, in a way it has been, when John Muir first visited here in 1879 much of the bay was Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USATagsUNESCO World Heritage, US National Parks

Glacier gazing in Glacier Bay: Lamplugh

Posted onSeptember 5, 2008July 17, 20202 Comments

Our first new glacier for the day is Lamplugh, a rapidly receding tidewater glacier that sits underwater behind the sand piled in front of it. I’m fascinated by the way the compacted ice glows intensely Read More …

CategoriesAlaska, USATagsUNESCO World Heritage, US National Parks

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