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Alaska (4/6)

 

These pictures were taken during our trip to Alaska by cruise ship from Seattle in July 2013.

  

 

 

 

We walked over streams where salmon had spawned; the adults then die; the red marks their decay. Mouseover to see an unexpected native of Alaska's rainforest: a porcupine in a tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many Filipinos migrated to work in Alaska's salmon canning factories (mouseover to see an exhibition on their lives that we saw earlier in Seattle).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lift at Juneau library was out of action, so we walked up 4 floors to use its free Wifi to Skype my mother. That brought eye-to-eye with the Zaandam, Holland Line sister ship of our Oosterdam.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We took a cable car, run by native Alaskans, to the plateau above Juneau. Mouseover to see a bald eagle with an injured eye at the top that was being cared for by the visitor centre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was still snow at the top, in July. Mouse over to see a marmet we saw among the grass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here I am with an rainbow evening sailaway from Juneau, mouseover for Mark with the same rainbow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next day we docked at Sitka, the capital when Alaska belonged to Russia. We went on a birdwatching tour in this beautiful landscape, and glimpsed a Sitka deer (mousover).

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wouldn't want this banana slug in my garden at home, within a few days there would be nothing left!

 

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