Alaska Trip : July 1-23, 2017

Part 3 - Valdez

July 11: Fairbanks to Valdez

A gloomy flying day, but the plan was to get down to Valdez for a couple days of forecast sunshine.

The lodges outside Denali	Windy Pass	Trans-Alaska Pipeline near Tonsina	The highway south of Tonsina
Thompson Pass	Going thru Thompson Pass	Port Valdez	cIMG_02949.JPG

July 11: Valdez

Glaucous-winged Gull	cIMG_4321.JPG	cIMG_4328.JPG	pIMG_4334.JPG
Bald Eagle	cIMG_4346.JPG	cIMG_4351.JPG	cIMG_4357.JPG
Valdez Small Boat Harbor	pIMG_4395.JPG	The fish cutters were efficient	cIMG_4448.JPG
cIMG_4458.JPG	cIMG_4494.JPG	cIMG_4524.JPG	Fillet, freeze, and FedEx your catch home!

July 12: Stan Stephens Meares Glacier Cruise

I got a beautiful blue-sky day for the cruise!

Alyeska Oil Terminal	cIMG_4562.JPG	cIMG_4567.JPG	cIMG_4568.JPG
The wheelhouse	cIMG_4572.JPG	pIMG_4587.JPG	pIMG_4607.JPG
Middle Rock	cIMG_4620.JPG	cIMG_4622.JPG	Seine fishing
cIMG_4635.JPG	cIMG_4659.JPG	Sea otter	pIMG_4683.JPG
Mountain goat, or patch of snow?	cIMG_4712.JPG	pIMG_4718.JPG	cIMG_4719.JPG
cIMG_4732.JPG	pIMG_4746.JPG	cIMG_4775.JPG	cIMG_4786.JPG
The fish are jumping	cIMG_4813.JPG	cIMG_4820.JPG	Marbled Murrelet
pIMG_4851.JPG	pIMG_4862.JPG	pIMG_4878.JPG	pIMG_4881.JPG
Harbor Seals	pIMG_4917.JPG	cIMG_4919.JPG	pIMG_4924.JPG
Meares Glacier	cIMG_4952.JPG	cIMG_4960.JPG	cIMG_4983.JPG
cIMG_4986.JPG	cIMG_4993.JPG	Before a calving event	After
cIMG_5018.JPG	cIMG_5078.JPG	cIMG_5086.JPG	pIMG_5100.JPG
pIMG_5117.JPG	cIMG_02983.JPG	cIMG_5140.JPG	pIMG_5153.JPG
This section is about to calve	pIMG_5180.JPG	pIMG_5191.JPG	pIMG_5194.JPG
pIMG_5198.JPG	pIMG_5203.JPG	pIMG_5208.JPG	pIMG_5216.JPG
pIMG_5217.JPG	cIMG_5227.JPG	cIMG_5231.JPG	pIMG_5245.JPG
pIMG_5252.JPG	pIMG_5262.JPG	pIMG_5264.JPG	pIMG_5270.JPG
pIMG_5276.JPG	pIMG_5283.JPG	Sea lion	... with a fish
pIMG_5329.JPG	pIMG_5353.JPG	Dall's Porpoise	Humpback whale
pIMG_5430.JPG	pIMG_5443.JPG	cIMG_5460.JPG	pIMG_5465.JPG
A second whale, as evidenced by different fluke pattern	pIMG_5479.JPG	Fin slapping	cIMG_5491.JPG
cIMG_5498.JPG	cIMG_5508.JPG	cIMG_5515.JPG	pIMG_5568.JPG
pIMG_5571.JPG	Steller's Sea Lion	pIMG_5589.JPG	pIMG_5590.JPG
pIMG_5601.JPG	pIMG_5609.JPG	Tufted Puffin	pIMG_5657.JPG
pIMG_5673.JPG	pIMG_5678.JPG	Pelagic Cormorant (?)	pIMG_5692.JPG
pIMG_5718.JPG	pIMG_5723.JPG	Horned Puffin	pIMG_5746.JPG
Pigeon Guillemot	pIMG_5759.JPG	Alaska ferry	pIMG_5791.JPG
pIMG_5797.JPG	pIMG_5802.JPG	Bligh Reef marker (where the Exxon Valdez ran aground)	pIMG_5822.JPG
pIMG_5831.JPG	cIMG_5832.JPG	pIMG_5841.JPG	Alyeska terminal marker
cIMG_5858.JPG	pIMG_5878.JPG	Arctic Tern	Caspian Tern
pIMG_5890.JPG	cIMG_5895.JPG	cIMG_5896.JPG	cIMG_5907.JPG
cIMG_5910.JPG	cIMG_5917.JPG	cIMG_5926.JPG	cIMG_5928.JPG
pIMG_5949.JPG	pIMG_5953.JPG	cIMG_5956.JPG