Glacier Bay Flashback

Glacier Bay National Park

Alaska

June 2014

The Spud Drive-In Theatre

 The Spud Drive-In Theatre (1953)

Driggs, Idaho

October 2020

Teton County Fire Protection District, Station 2

 

Teton County Fire Protection District, Station 2, 60 Elm Street, Victor, Idaho. The FPD is a combination career and reserve (volunteer) station and was established through a 1996 ballot. Station 2 was built in 2000 and houses an engine, tender, ambulance, light engine and heavy engine. Along with Victor, other stations are located in Driggs and Tetonia.

Return to the Great West - 2020

 

OK, after a 5,728 mile road trip I'm back and we're live again. Today will start blog posts from the past couple of weeks. With stops in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, these posts may take two or three weeks and maybe into four weeks until I can just hit the highlights. More posts will go on for a long time. So, stay tuned, I hope you enjoy. 

Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

June 2014

The Alaska Range

The Alaska Range

Denali National Park

June 2014

Grand Pacific Glacier

Grand Pacific Glacier

Glacier Bay National Park

Alaska

June 2014

Toklat River Bridge

Toklat River Bridge

Mile 53, Denali Park Road

Denali National Park, Alaska

June 2014

Chillin'

Sea Otter Chillin'

Glacier Bay, Alaska

June 2014

Reid Glacier

Reid Glacier, Glacier Bay, Alaska 

25 miles out of the Gulf of Alaska

and 50 mile up into Glacier Bay

June, 2014

Mountain Goat Sighting

I spotted these 9 Mountain Goat while cruising out of Glacier Bay, Alaska. They were way out there.

Marjorie Glacier Calving

While we spent most of the day in Glacier Bay we spent most of 3 hours parked in front of the Marjorie Glacier. We saw quite a few calvings. A calving is when a piece of the glacier breaks off and tumbles into the water. The breaking off sounds like a gunshot. You would hear the crack and start looking for the falling ice. Sometime it would hit the water with a roar. I didn't get any on video but I did get one in a 20 picture series.

The Central Alaska Range

This is a view of the Central Alaska Range from the Polychrome Pass Overlook along the Denali Park Road. Mount McKinley is to the right. 

Toklat River Contact Station

Old Glory waves at the Toklat River Contact Station, mile 53 on the Denali Highway.

The Teklanika River

An overlook along the Denali Highway and view of the Teklanika River. A good example of a glacial thread river. The Alaska Range in the background.

Birds of Glacier Bay, part 2

OK, here is part two of my Birds of Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. First an foremost is the bird I most hoped to see in Alaska, the Tufted Puffin. I saw a few of these. Some swimming and some flying. The next is one of a bunch of Pacific Loons we saw. This guy was hell bent on out swimming the ship.

Birds of Glacier Bay

Part one of two of the birds I saw in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.  Granted that I didn't get pictures of all the different birds I saw, these are just some. First there is the Palagic Cormorant. There a little different than the double-crested cormorants we see at the beach or at Conowingo Dam. They're mostly black with the white at the base of their wings. Then of course you'll see the ever present Bald Eagle. We saw them everywhere. We did, by the way, see some Golden Eagles from the bus in Denali. And finally for today, is the Black-legged Kittiwake. Yeah, I though it was just another gull, too.

'bou

More critters from the bus. These barren-ground caribou were some of the five or six different groups that we saw while touring through Denali National Park and Preserve. All part of the Denali Herd. This time of year they are still in velvet as their antlers continue to grow. Both male and female grow antlers. The females aren't very big and the males can grew to three feet long.

Moose in Denali

We started our bus trip through Denali with a cow moose and calf running across the road in front of us. Later we saw these two cows running from the back side of this ridge. Why were they running. I don't know, but the were wasting no time. They eventually settled down and I managed a few decent pictures. Later, on the way back we saw this last moose way out there. I mean waaayyy out there. It would be our only bull moose of the trip. On the bus ride from Denali down to Seward we saw 6 more. All cows and calves.