Monday, July 20, 2009

Alaska Wildlife!


Well, we're in Alaska right now - Stewart, Alaska to be exact. Tomorrow we're going out on a wildlife cruise in the Kenai Fjords National Park, which should be really cool. We should see all kinds of animals on the cruise, but we've seen lots already. Everything in the north is so spread out, so there's a lot of open spaces for the wildlife to thrive in. I don't have too much to say, so I'll just show a bunch of photos I've taken in the last few days using my new camera. These, as usual, are barely edited, and greatly reduced in resolution. The originals are much bigger, better quality files (email me if you want a better copy of something).

Cheers,
Ian

Bald Eagle

Another Bald Eagle

Trumpeter Swans

Cygnet (baby swan) stretches its wings

Grizzly Bear (about 3 feet from the van) berry-picking

Black Bear munching on some roadside plants

Female Dall Sheep standing on cliff edge above the highway

Meghan down on the beach, watching a pod of about 30 Beluga Whales pass by (hard to see in this photo)


Beluga Whale with calf swimming feet from shore in the Cook Inlet


2 comments:

Val said...

Awesome pictures! I'm surprised Meghan didn't dive in and start swimming with the whales.

Ian said...

She said she wanted to, but wasn't wearing a bathing suit, and didn't want lots of strangers taking photos of her , naked, riding on the back of a whale.