2006 - Alaska

Our trip to Alaska started by missing a connecting flight and spending a night in the Anchorage Airport.... a great start !
Thsi picture was actually taken midway through the trip when we crossed over into Canada and returned... seemed appropriate for the beginning though...
First day in Alaska and already I struck it rich ! That's real gold in the pan.
Here's Eileen holding a 19 ounce nugget... no not ours.
Lost already on the first day !
Saw our first "wildlife" in Alaska.
Paul and Ruth in our first hotel... wearing the same clothes we left Phila. with. Bags hadn't arrived yet.
This woman trains her own dogs and runs in the Iditerod Race each year.
An Alaskan native wearing a hand made fur coat... (valued at $16000)
All the salmon, halibut, cod, etc. you could eat.
On the train to Denali National Park.
Seating and viewing was tremendous on the train.

The train traveling through a mountain pass.
View from the train of white water rafting.
Lots of bears in Alaska...not all real though....
Fron the left..Carol, Jeff, Roy, Bobbie at the lodge in Denali.
A backwoods cabin in Denali.
A caribou visited our bus in Denali.
Nothing but great scenery on the entire trip.
ditto....
Bobbie and Roy in Denali.
In the summer they disguise the dogs to look like geraniums...
The main lodge in Denali.
Back on the train enjoying lunch.
A view from the train.
The flowers grow large because of the extended daylight.
Lunch in a brewery in Anchorage.
Another Alaskan bear...
A real live moose !
And a real live bear !
Our room in Kenai.
An Alaskan river filled with salmon in Kenai.
Here we are going to Whittier.
More great scenery.
Jeff and Carol at the same spot.
Paul and Ruth in an aquarium in Seward.
An Alaskan crab... look at those legs !
An Alaskan puffin.
An Alaskan seal. Trying to train these "old dogs" is no small task.
Fishing boat in harbor at Seward.
An American eagle.
Alaskan salmon chasing flies...
The gang all together for a pic...
Which one has the wooden head ?
Another great view....
Our cabin on the Sapphire Princess.
The three best looking women in Whittier this day.
In the College Fjord.
Seals on an iceberg floating by the ship.
The "Bryn Mawr" glacier.
Entering Glacier Bay.
Another group photo...
Formal dining on the ship (next 5 pics).

Birds on an iceberg floating by.
More in Glacier Bay.
A glacier "calving"... (where a chunk breaks off and becomes an iceberg).

It wasn't as cold as it looks. Really, it wasn't !
Why it's called Glacier Bay.
Well, well another bear !
The Sapphire Princess.
From left: Jeff, Carol, Bobbie, Roy, Eileen, Paul, Ruth.
Salmon going up stream to spawn. Even in the smallest of streams.
Finally some whales.... just two of the 70 pics of whales.

The Saxman Village with native Alaskan Indians.
A totem pole in the village.
The last formal night on the ship.
Again, it's not really that cold !
Honest !
The last day on the ship.



Other cruise ships haeding to Vancouver.
Sunset on the last day over Vancouver Island.