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
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July 11: Valdez
Glaucous-winged Gull
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Bald Eagle
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Valdez Small Boat Harbor
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The fish cutters were efficient
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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
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The wheelhouse
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Middle Rock
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Seine fishing
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Sea otter
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Mountain goat, or patch of snow?
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The fish are jumping
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Marbled Murrelet
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Harbor Seals
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Meares Glacier
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Before a calving event
After
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This section is about to calve
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Sea lion
... with a fish
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Dall's Porpoise
Humpback whale
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A second whale, as evidenced by different fluke pattern
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Fin slapping
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Steller's Sea Lion
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Tufted Puffin
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Pelagic Cormorant (?)
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Horned Puffin
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Pigeon Guillemot
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Alaska ferry
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Bligh Reef marker (where the Exxon Valdez ran aground)
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Alyeska terminal marker
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Arctic Tern
Caspian Tern
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