If you’ve read any of the earlier posts in this blog you know about the awesome visit I just completed with my sister (Sally) and brother/brother in law (Gene) who hail from Monument, Colorado. This was their first visit to Alaska and they did it right by spending a week sailing up the Inside Passage from Vancouver, debarking at Seward, catching a wildlife cruise in Resurrection Bay, visiting the town and Kenai Fjords National Park, taking a bus to Anchorage and then riding the Alaska Railroad to Talkeetna where I picked them up. We spent 18 days together during which I was privileged to show them ‘my Alaska’ which consists of many locations most tourists don’t know exist let alone visit. Some of the aforementioned include East End Road in Homer, the west side of the Kenai Peninsula, the Denali Highway and Teklanika campsite in Denali NP&P.
During their visit we all took hundreds of images and I want to share some which I really enjoyed. With that said here’s the first ‘installment’:
A section of The Alaska Range as seen from a K2 Aviation Beaver during a flight-seeing trip which included a glacier landing
A view of one of the command desks in the National Tsunami Warning Center located in Palmer
Majestic Denali as seen from the shore of the Susitna River in downtown Talkeetna
The incredible Class 5+ white water in Devil’s Canyon on the Susitna River; we toured this area on a wonderful tour with Mahay’s Jet Boat Adventures
The incredible beauty of the Alaska Range in morning light with the tussock tundra in fall color from the Denali Highway (AK 8)
A young grizzly in Denali NP&P’s Sable Pass as seen from a tour bus
A pair of Sea Otters in Kachemak Bay as seen from our wildlife cruise courtesy of ‘Bay Excursions’ in Homer
The flukes of a small Humpback Whale that came within ten feet of our boat in Kachemak Bay during our wildlife cruise!
Alaskan at Last! 