Raindrop
size: 665x1000, 102k
Juneau, Alaska
June, 2007
This was outside The Chapel By The Lake, on the way to the Mendenhall Glacier.
Purple Flowers
size: 1000x665, 162k
Juneau, Alaska
June, 2007
Mendenhall Glacier
size: 1000x332, 51k
This doesn't begin to convey the massiveness.
Juneau, Alaska
June, 2007
54"w x 18"h
Julie at Mendenhall
size: 1000x665, 74k
Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska
June, 2007
Cloud in Trees
size: 1000x180, 45k
Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
June, 2007
12"h x 66"w
Moraine Composite
size: 1000x454, 135k
A moraine is a depression in the earth (or rock, in this case) created by boulders of glacier left behind in the glacial retreat. The depressions fill with water. Southeast Wisconsin is filled with moraines.
Mendenhall Glacier, AK
June, 2007
Plant Succession
size: 1000x665, 311k
After the glaciers retreat, lichen are the first to colonize the bare rocks. Then mosses, followed by nitrogen fixing plants. After that, grasses and flowers.
What the temperate rainforest lacks in biodiversity, it makes up for in biomass.
Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
June 2007
Fog Collision
size: 1000x651, 101k
Mendenhall Lake, Alaska
June, 2007
Sunset
size: 1000x740, 106k
Gastineau Channel, Alaska
June, 2007
Sunset on the first night of the cruise.
Intertidal Rock
size: 665x1000, 255k
Idaho Inlet, Alaska
July, 2007
At high tide, this rock would be submerged to the highest point of the brownish-yellow seaweed. You can also see lines of mussels.
Deadwood
size: 1000x665, 240k
Idaho Inlet, Alaska
July, 2007
Jellyfish
size: 1000x665, 26k
Idaho Inlet, Alaska
July, 2007
We think this is a moon jelly, but if you have a better ID I'd appreciate it.
18 Bald Eagles
size: 1000x665, 28k
Icy Strait, Alaska
July, 2007
There were so many bald eagles hovering over the Icy Strait feeding ground, waiting to steal someone else's food, that I just pointed my camera at the sky and snapped.
Whale Tale 2
size: 1000x649, 168k
This is one the whales that joined us for dinner.
Icy Strait, Alaska
July, 2007
Whale Tail
size: 1000x665, 197k
Icy Strait, Alaska
July, 2007
A whale dives for food.
Juvenile Breaching
size: 1000x665, 179k
Looks like fun to me. This whale played off in the distance for at least an hour. For most of that time, it splashed in front of a fishing boat. This was the closest it got to us.
Icy Strait, Alaska
July, 2007