Alaska Wrap-Up

Just one more post on Alaska.:-D Diane already thinks that there are too many.

Chocolate fountain

Stone Man

Ghost Forest

This bear needed to get a better view of its surroundings

Not a truly wild bear, but the closest I got to seeing one in the *wild*

Bison

Baby booties in the Conservation Center gift shop

View from the Crow’s Nest

(Alaska’s only 4-star restaurant)

Delicious avocado salad

Iditarod Monument (starts in Anchorage on 4th Ave and D Street, I believe)

Anchorage is really far away from the rest of the world

Glacier Cruise

OK, so let’s all flash back to June when I was in Alaska. Here are some pics from the Glacier Cruise and other fun things I was able to do…

The journey begins…

Grass runway behind people’s homes

The train hugged the coastline

View across the inlet

One of many glacier sightings

Floating chunk of ice

Wildlife was minimal on this cruise, but I knew that going into it

Another tour group checking out Prince William Sound

Love how glaciers have a bluish hue to them

As you approach glaciers, you’d see lots of small chunks of ice due to ‘calving’

Glacial calving begins…

Starting to fall…

It’s pretty cool when you see it in person

Small calving…but large calving has created waves up to 20′ high in recent years

Over w/in a matter of seconds

Glacial ice

One cookie to fatten me up

Local joint in the small village of Whittier (pop. 182)

On the way home