Well over a thousand miles separates Barrow from Juneau. It’s enough to make the place as different from Barrow as either place would be from much of the lower 48. I imagine many of my friends and family must themselves imagine the sights Moni and I have been enjoying here this last few days are common experiences. But we don’t have eagles in Barrow, nor trees or mountains. We don’t have glaciers either, unless you count the whole ocean as a glacier for part of the year. (Jokes aside, I’m pretty sure that’s not how glaciers work.) Southeast Alaska is a truly beautiful place. It’s one we don’t often get to enjoy.
Still…
Travel happens!
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This guy was a little ways off, which is why Moni and I weren’t immediately sure what we were looking at. I was busy snapping stills of this eagle with as much zoom as I could. Moni scooped me with a vid.
…the persistence of seagulls pays off.
A needlessly hurried spin around Mendenhall Lake.
…and a short photo gallery (click to embiggen):
Chilkat Weaving demo at the Alaska Native Studies Conference
Form Line Art on a Utility Box
Dancing at the Folk Music Festival
Mendenhall+
Mendenhall Glacier
Blues
Downtown Juneau
Sunset at the Anchorage Airport
Nugget Falls
Denizens of the University of Alaska, Southeast
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Juneau
A Bit of Street Art
Shore of Auke Lake
Mountains Overlooking Mendenhall Lake
The Visitor Center and a small Pond at Mendenhall Lake
Couple friends walking under a rainbow
Mendenhall Lake
Mendenhall Lake in the evening
This was Auke Bay as seen from the University of Alaska, Southeast (taken through a chain link fence)
Very nice.
By America On Coffee on April 17, 2018 at 8:40 am
Great tour! Thx!
By pennross on April 17, 2018 at 12:12 pm
Alaska stirs one’s soul. Great pics
By leftdrawdj on April 17, 2018 at 1:59 pm
Juneau reminded me of Sausalito – a small city across the bay from San Francisco.
By JT Twissel on April 17, 2018 at 5:34 pm
Eagle watching the tide roll away … too cool! 😀
By Widdershins on April 17, 2018 at 10:37 pm
It took me a while to actually see the eagle in that video. Stop getting in the way, seagulls!
That mural with all the animals reminds me of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam. Is it just me?
By Nathan on April 22, 2018 at 5:34 pm