Alaska Railway, Anchorage bound for Denali Park
May 25, 2015
Places visited May 17 - 29, 2015
Hubbard Glacier merging with Valerie Glacier
iPhone photo from 30,000 ft May 17, 2015
Malaspina Glacier
St. Elias Mountains, southeast Alaska
Road from Anchorage to Seward
Smew drake, Alaska Sealife Center, Seward
captive bird, May 20, 2015. A Smew is a small merganser of the middle and western Aleutian islands.
The Doo of a Smew (drake)
Alaska Sealife Center, Seward
The Doo of a Smew (hen)
Tufted Puffin pair, Alaska Sealife Center, Seward
King Eider, drake
Alaska Seallife Center, Seward
Long-tailed Duck (breeding plumage) takes a vigorous bath
Harbor Seal
Sea Otter
Resurrection Bay, near Seward, Alaska
Tundra Swans and six cygnets on nest, Seward, Alaska
May 21, 2015
Bear Glacier, fed by Harding Icefield, Kenai Mountains
at Resurrection Bay
Holgate Glacier, fed by Harding Icefield, Kenai Mountains
at Aialik Bay
Holgate Glacier and glacial ice chunks in the water
Entrance to Resurrection Bay from Gulf of Alaska
Raft of Common Murres
Resurrection Bay, May 21, 2015
Sea Lion colony, Resurrection Bay
the bull is at lower left; all the others are his harem or juveniles
Seward Alaska waterfront and Marathon Mountain, from Resurrection Bay
Tern Lake, on the Kenai Peninsula
This glacially fed lake is home to Arctic Terns, Mew Gulls, Common Loons and other birds of this section of Alaska.
Bald Eagle takeoff, wings down
Anchor Point, Alaska (north of Homer)
