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These are a selection of the best pictures from our 2013 trip to Alaska. If you are short on time, you need to look no further than this gallery.
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  • Owl

    Owl

    Alaska Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Sitka, AK

  • Totel Pole

    Totel Pole

    Sitka National Historic Park in Stika, AK.

  • Chatham Cannery

    Chatham Cannery

    On Stikof bay, off Chatham Strait, Northeast of Sitka, AK.

  • Purse Seiners

    Purse Seiners

    These fisherman are using a net called a purse seiner. As you can see in the other pictures from this fishing session, the net is used to encircle a school of fish, and is then retracted into the boat, bring with it a catch of fish.

  • Old Tree with Moss and Ferns

    Old Tree with Moss and Ferns

  • Mussels

    Mussels

    Close up of mussels clusters on rocks in the intertidal area of a beach on a small island in the Alaska inside passage.

  • Sea Lion

    Sea Lion

    Seen in Cross Sound, near the Inian Islands, Inside Passage, AK

  • Sea Lions

    Sea Lions

    Seen in Cross Sound, near the Inian Islands, Inside Passage, AK

  • Three Humpback Whales

    Three Humpback Whales

    Seen in Cross Sound, near the Inian Islands, Inside Passage, AK

  • Humpback Whale Fluke

    Humpback Whale Fluke

    Seen in Cross Sound, near the Inian Islands, Inside Passage, AK

  • Rainbow

    Rainbow

    Probably over Lemesurier Island in Icy Strait, Inside Passage, AK

  • Grand Pacific Glacier

    Grand Pacific Glacier

  • Fishing Boat

    Fishing Boat

    In Stephens Passage.

  • Cascade Creek

    Cascade Creek

  • Honeydew Plants

    Honeydew Plants

    OIn the bog on Petersburg Mountain

  • House in Petersburg

    House in Petersburg

  • Waterfall

    Waterfall

    On the southern side of canyon carved by the Sawyer Glacier.

  • Close up of Ice

    Close up of Ice

    This shiny blue ice used to be under water. The burg has turned over leaving a very pretty light blue surface. It has recently calved from the Sawyer Glacier.

  • Arctic Terns

    Arctic Terns

    On the ice next to the Sawyer Glacier.

  • Sawyer Glacier Calving

    Sawyer Glacier Calving

    A large piece of the glacier is breaking off and falling into the ocean right in front of us. The zodiac conveniently provides scale.

  • Seagulls

    Seagulls

    A flock of gulls flies next to the face of Sawyer Glacier.

  • Sawyer Glacier Calving

    Sawyer Glacier Calving

    Ice pillar hitting the ocean after calving off of the face of Sawyer Glacier.

  • Tracy Arm View

    Tracy Arm View

    If you look closely you can see the fleet of smaller boats returning from South Sawyer Glacier.

  • Waterfall

    Waterfall

    Water coming down the rock face next to Sawyer Glacier.

  • Joel, Daphne, Karen and Larry

    Joel, Daphne, Karen and Larry

    With Sawyer Glacier in the background. Photographer: Guest

  • Joel and Daphne

    Joel and Daphne

    With the Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau, AK) in the background.

  • Larry and Karen

    Larry and Karen

    With the Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau, AK) in the background.

  • Savage River

    Savage River

    Taken from the Denali National Park Road.

  • Fireweed

    Fireweed

  • Caribou

    Caribou

  • Denali Park View

    Denali Park View

    Taken from Polychrome Overlock on the Denali National Park Road.

  • Denali Park View

    Denali Park View

    Taken from the Denali National Park Road.

  • Brown Bear

    Brown Bear

  • Unidentified Plants

    Unidentified Plants

  • Moose Feeding

    Moose Feeding

  • Alaska Central Range

    Alaska Central Range

    Over Wonder lake

  • Aerial Pictures

    Aerial Pictures

    Daphne took these pictues from a sight seeing plane flying over the Alaska Central Range, including Mt McKinley.

  • Mt McKinley

    Mt McKinley

    Daphne took these pictues from a sight seeing plane flying over the Alaska Central Range, including Mt McKinley.

  • Alaska Central Range

    Alaska Central Range

  • Alaska Central Range

    Alaska Central Range

  • Fireweed and Mt McKinley

    Fireweed and Mt McKinley

  • McKinley Bar Trail

    McKinley Bar Trail

  • Mt McKinley

    Mt McKinley

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