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More Alaska Images

Sleeping Truck

When I visited Haines, Alaska a couple times, I stayed in a small cabin close to the ferry terminal. As I was out for an after-dinner walk, I got this image of an old truck with one of the Alaska ferries in the distance. This is one of the smaller ferries that usually runs between towns, not the larger vessels that make the run from Bellingham, Washington.

The cabin had a number of grouse living in the yard. They were quite tame and I think were looking for handouts. I gave them a copy of my itinerary, but they didn’t seem interested in that type of handout.

Grouse
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Mountains from the Alaska Ferry – 2

Mountains from the Alaska Ferry 1

Further down Lynn Canal from my previous post (same trip on the Alaska ferry), these images caught my eye while doing some organizing and re-processing. The sunset was pretty spectacular. These were taken about 30 minutes apart.

Mountains from the Alaska Ferry 2
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Mountains from the Alaska Ferry – 1

Mountain Valley 1

These images were taken from the Alaska ferry between Haines and Juneau. Much closer to Haines than Juneau. They were taken with not much zoom (160mm) and they are almost at sea level. It was mid-September and the first snow of the season had already fallen.

Mountain Vally 2
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Eldred Rock Lighthouse

Eldred Rock Lighthouse

The Eldred Rock Lighthouse is located in Southeast Alaska between Juneau and Haines on Lynn Canal. It is an automated light, so I guess it isn’t really a ‘house’. I took this from the Alaska Marine Highway ferry on a trip to Haines to visit my Aunt. It was May and this was the amount of snow left on the mountains. I did not come back this way, but drove back down the Alaska Highway … a wonderful trip, if you have the time and are interested in being impressed with just how big the country is up there and how far apart towns are.

Below is a photo of Haines as we were sailing past to get to the ferry terminal north of town. When I lived there one winter in the mid-’70’s, I lived just at the foot of the hill on the right edge of the photo. It had a spectacular view of the water and mountains.

Haines, Alaska from the Ferry

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Alaskan Sunset

Alaskan Sunset

One of the nice things about visiting Southeast Alaska in the late spring and early summer is the length of time you have for taking pictures of the sunset. (That is, if it isn’t raining) This was late May outside Haines. The sunset went on for hours.

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