Inside our first B&B east of Anchorage.
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Fabulous scenery from the B&B.
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Before leaving on a one-day rail excursion.
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View from the train.
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A dall sheep high up the mountainside.
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Exiting the two-and-a-half mile tunnel on the train.
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Lunch on the train while at Whittier.
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We got off the train and went for a 3 hour hike to the Spencer Glacier.
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Ice flows broken off the glacier. Bigger than a house. The blue color shows up better on cloudy days.
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The train came back to pick us up a few hours later.
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Salmon fishing - Alaska style. This was later in the evening - there were even more people earlier. The locals call this "Combat Fishing".
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In Alaska there are 15 mile long traffic jams when salmon season opens!
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Downtown Anchorage.
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Noreen admiring some art at the Anchorage Museum.
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The Anchorage Museum had many great models of early housing.
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Don, playing with his fly-fishing rod!
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More "Combat" salmon fishing - shoulder to shoulder.
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Downtown Talkeetna
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A beautiful day to eat outside in Talkeetna.
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A brewery sampler.
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Start of our sightseeing flight from Talkeetna.
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Lots of water in Alaska.
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Flying over the mountaintops. We had hoped to see Mt. McKinley but it was too cloudy.
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Rita and Don in a Single Otter.
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If you look close, there is a cabin the the middle - a four hour drive by quad to get there.
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The Single Otter we went flying in.
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No helmet laws or minimum age in Alaska for quad riding!
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Local foliage. Maybe someone knows what this is?
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Brian worked a lot on fishing tackle - at least he knows what he is doing!
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When driving in central Alaska you could only see as far as the next tree.
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Suspension bridge on a hike to a waterfall.
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At the waterfall. It was worth the hike.
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The lake in Wasilla where Sarah Palin lives. We didn't see her.
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Alaska has a lot of water and mountains!
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Entrance to the Whitter tunnel - cars and trains take turns going through.
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One of many, many glaciers.
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An island of sea otters.
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The gorgeous scenery never ends.
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Sea otters spend most of their time floating on their backs.
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Another glacier on the 26 Glacier cruise.
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Amazing!
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Humpback whale spouting.
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Humpback whale tail.
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The face of a glacier.
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There were hundreds of beautiful waterfalls.
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Pretty cool on deck during the 26 Glacier cruise.
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This is a seal - not to be confused with a sea otter.
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People camping at the foot of a glacier.
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Look close in the bottom right - you will see the campers!
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Slightly closer view of the campers at the foot of the glacier.
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We saw a few bald eagles - they are a big deal in Alaska.
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The 26 Glacier cruise boat.
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Driving inside the Whitter tunnel.
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At a B&B just outside Homer, Alaska - on our 22nd Anniversary.
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It never got much darker than this.
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Brian and Don went ocean fishing for halibut from Homer.
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This tiny boat bobs around a LOT out in the ocean!
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The halibut with the blue tiewrap is mine - note both eyes on the right side of its head
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This guy did all the filleting on the ride back to Homer.
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At least we caught something!
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Out on the waterfront at Homer.
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Cemetary by Ninilchik - beside a neat church.
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Seward Alaska has lots of murals.
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Mural on the side of the Seward Museum.
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Locomotive lantern in the Seward Museum.
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I think it is called a stereoscope?
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Starting point of the Iditerod dog sled race in Seward.
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Brian, taking the view.
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On old church, now a gallery.
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We took a guided walking tour to the Exit glacier near Seward.
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Up close to the Exit glacier.
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Sometimes the glacier meltwater covers the road.
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The white wavy line is a bore tide - a six-foot high wall of tide water coming in to the bay.
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