Skagway, Yukon Pass Train

 

Skagway. Felt alot like CO. An Alaskan Georgetown almost.

 I'll type about trip later, too tired. 

A house over looking the runway! What a house.

 

The port as seen of a trail towards Dewey Lake.

Dewey Lake

My Esbit stove and dinner. Love that stove.

Yukon Express Train

A Summit Express train that went before ours. Its higher up on the mountain.

The Sawtooth Mountain Range

THIS MAN'S ELBOW ruined this shot.

If you look really hard, you can see a cruise ship in the harbor down in Skagway.

Old Steel Bridge.

The Summit, had a awesome lake

Skagway is 45 minutes north of Juneau.

Fourth Of July, Youngs Lake

Captain Morgan. No serious, Morgan was our Captain. Observing his lake.

 Fourth of July the owner of our company took us all out to Youngs Lake on Admiralty Island.           According to Wikipedia.... 

 "Admiralty Island is home to the highest density of brown bears in North America. An estimated 1,600 brown bears inhabit the island, outnumbering Admiralty's human residents nearly three to one."

 It was an unforgettable trip. Shot a number of small cannon hand guns, my shotgun, and a AK-47.
And a .22 caliber lever action. I want a a .22 now. That thing is awesome. We tossed apples out into the lake for targets.

Owner brought so much food and around 1000$ worth of fireworks. Its amazing we didn't blow anything up. Or each other. Or the tents. We may have had the fireworks to close to the tents, but no holes were burned!

Cessna 206 float plane on the cloudy morning.

Our cabin PLUS the rain shelter we built!! If there was ever a makeshift, redneck shelter.... this was it. Three posts held the tarp out. I had  made duct tape corner guards so the metal roof didn't rip the tarp. It was amazing that this thing held together for three days in the rain.

Love the rain in the flash.

A 62 pound pig. Roasted over a pit of lake rocks, and charcoal.

About half of the fireworks we had left. Poor Maggie was hiding inside. Shes didn't like all the guns we had going all day. 

Camp

Adrian, a pilot. Taking a morning nap on the floats.

Man in green is the owner of Air Excursions. Mr Mike here is the reason we were able to have such a great Fourth.

The pig after countless hours on the fire. Was delicious.

Beer. And guns. What could go wrong?  Funny as it looks like the gun is being pointed at someones head.

 It wasn't.

Camera video wasn't fast enough to catch the muzzle flash and the water impact so I settled for the flash. 

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Whale Watching

Went non-rev on a Whale watching boat! 

It was awesome, and the boat captain was the coolest guy. 

"Not bad when this is your office eh'?"

Video is of the Orca pod we saw. Trying to upload the other two videos of them. But they are larger files and are being a pain in import. 

But the first video is the best :)

Lighthouse on the point of a larger island. And elderly couple still runs it. 

Orca's tail slapping.

Orcas!! These were transitory Orca's moving through. They were eating seals, which I did not get a picture of.

Humpback, we were really close. I don't think this picture had much zoom on it.

Humpback tail!! The whales would come up for air but only show the tails when they were ready to dive again.  They would rise and fall around 4 times before showing the tails!

 

A glacier seen from the Icy Straights. This glacier use to be all the way up to where the boat currently was in the picture.

Rainbow in the humbacks breath!

Humbacks in their school? Swarm? Family? Pod? Lets say pod.

Whale Tail

Weekend In Gustavus

 This weekend took a non-rev flight with our company to a small town twenty minutes west of Juneau called Gustavus. Camped the first night and rode a boat for a tour of the Glacier Bay National Park on the second day before flying back.

Beach right outside of my camp ground.

Camp, Anthonys tent is way lighter than mine.

Little ways from my camp, see that rock about dead center in the pic?

Ya, there was a girl on the rock and a moose came running out of the woods and scared us. She has a numbered bandana around her neck for the Park Services can track her and such. We were happy that this moose was so tame, as she came within about 4 feet of this girl on her rock.

Sunset, at 10pm

Built the fire an hour or two before high tide. It came within a foot of the fire and stopped! Made for a good picture, but it also covered the little dig out I had made and was napping in.

Baranof Wind

First Brown Bear! He was far away, and we were on the boat.

Billy Goats and little fluffy goats.

Harbor Seal and Pup. We kinda almost hit it with the boat, and I'm not sure if anyone else got a picture! Was in a perfect window seat as we stopped the boat.

John Hopkins Glacier and the twin 14000 peaks, Wilbur and Orville

When they tell you the Gustavus Office is larger than the Juneau office.......... They were lying to you.