Alaska Highway - Tok to Delta Junction
23 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We leave Tok on the Alcan Hway. This road of 1500 miles was built in 9 months through the remote subarctic wilderness. The area had not been mapped. Just outside Tok, a section of the road is calledЧитать далее
Delta Junction
23 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Rikka's Roadhouse is now a state owned historical site. Rikka came by the roadhouse and farm for the sum of $5. Her husband who founded the business was more interested in hunting and frequently wentЧитать далее
North Pole
23 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
What a surprise! We travel down Santa Claus Lane to Santa's House. The street lights are like candy canes.This is the place where Santa makes toys for the native children. The reindeer are feedingЧитать далее
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These are amazing . Harry loves the reindeers and knowing that you are at the North Pole.
Fairbanks, AK
24 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
A quick morning walk around a few streets close to our hotel. Fairbanks is a military, tourism and oil town so there are lots of services and facilities here.
One of the main streets here in town isЧитать далее
Alaska Pipeline
24 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
The Alaska Pipeline runs for 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay in the north to Valdez in the south. It crosses 3 mountain ranges and more than 500 rivers and swamps. The pipeline is 48 inches in diameter butЧитать далее
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Lots of oil in the pipe. lol. Its amazing how important this is and how its constructed.
Discovery III Cruise on the Chena River
24 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌫 17 °C
Arriving at the visitors centre, we go to the 40 below room and experience how cold -40 degrees really is. Thank goodness we are only in there for 30 secs.
We board the Discovery III river boat toЧитать далее
Dog Sled Training
24 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌫 17 °C
Along the river is the late Susan Butcher's dog training facility. Susan is an Iditarod legend. She died several years ago but her husband maintains the facility and trains and breeds mushing dogs. WeЧитать далее
Athabaskan Village
24 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
We rotate around 4 aspects of life in an Athabaskan Village.
The fishing camp shows us how they set the fish trap then dried and smoked the salmon.
The trapper's cabin shows us the various animalsЧитать далее
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That rug looks similar to the one I saw in Kmart this week!! (do you miss us lol)
Salmon Bake and Golden Heart Revue
24 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We head out to Pioneer Park in the early evening for an all-you-can-eat salmon bake. Food is very good.
Then into the Palace Theatre for a series of skits and songs tracing Fairbank's history. VeryЧитать далее
Wilderness Express to Denali
25 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
We have boarded the Wilderness Express in Fairbanks bound this morning for Denali. This is a luxury train and we have a whole carriage to ourselves- a glass domed upper deck with bar and a dining carЧитать далее
ПутешественникLove your new jumper John! Awesome to see you are having a great time, we just had wine time but miss you guys!
Canyons on the Wilderness Express
25 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
The canyon rail track is perilously close to the edge and has recently been stabilised costing more than US$70 million. White water rafting is happening on the river. There is so much glacial siltЧитать далее
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So you have a view right at the front of the train this is amazing!!
Denali Village
25 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We stop at the Denali Visitors Centre. Here we choose to watch the movie on the park, wander around the displays and have lunch.
Later when you come to the village. In mid Sept, it becomes car-freeЧитать далее
Cabin Night Dinner/Denali Park Village
25 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Tonight's dinner was a family style ribs and salmon evening with a poetry and music show throughout. It was very entertaining. Our friend, Ross Brazier from Brisbane, played a great part in one of theЧитать далее
Denali National Park - the Landscape
26 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
We begin the Wilderness Tundra Tour at 1 pm and don't finish till after 9pm. A wonderful experience with Joe the guide getting up close and personal with the park.
Denali NP is 6.2 million acres. ItЧитать далее
More Denali
26 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Denali National Park - the Wildlife
26 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Here's the wildlife count:-
10 brown bears (mothers and cubs); 6 Dall's sheep; 1 Moose; 15+ Caribou all migrating west; 4 snowshoe hares; several ptarmigans; 1 Merlin (little falcon); arctic groundЧитать далее
Across the Continental Divide
27 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Leaving Denali, we travel over Broad Pass which is the highest point we go over on the continental divide. Up to now all the rivers we have crossed flow north; once over the divide, they flow south.Читать далее
The Iditerod
27 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
The official start of this race is on 4th Ave, Anchorage. The race is held in early March each year. Snow is piled on the streets of Anchorage for 6 miles. The mushing teams are then packed up andЧитать далее
ПутешественникSue, this is amazing. Is there any way I can use some of the pictures in my book? I understand if not. Just think yours be are so nice.
ПутешественникYes Sandie, no problems with that. We get home Sept 8. Email is slacey@ozemail.com.au if you need to get higher quality photos, am happy to send them on.
ПутешественникThat is so sweet of you!! We will keep in touch. Enjoy your travels and be safe!!!
To Seward via Kenai Peninsula
27 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Once again following Turnaround Arm to the end of the valley, we enter new territory as we cross the Kenai Peninsula. The road rises to 1,200 feet over Turnagain Pass.
We travel through avalancheЧитать далее
The Land Tour
27 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
The journey has covered 2,500 miles. This included 132 wilderness miles in Denali NP and the link through to Seward to connect with the cruise ship.
Seward Embarkation
27 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
The Seward departure point for the ship is adjacent to the rail depot where the Wilderness Express is waiting.
Seward is largely a fishing port and entry point to Alaska from the sea. Set in a fjord,Читать далее
Gulf of Alaska
28 августа 2017 г., Gulf of Alaska ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Not a lot happening. The weather is socked in. It's cold, raining, foggy with 5 metre swells. The sea has got rougher today and we were just up on deck 5 for the show and it's very rocky. We have beenЧитать далее
Entering Glacier Bay
29 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
We have just entered Glacier Bay. The wind has calmed and the sea is just choppy. The land rises straight up and the higher peaks have a dusting of snow from the past few days.
Big black bears areЧитать далее
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awwww This is what i want to see ! I'm happy and glad you could see this!!!
Glacier Bay Snapshots
29 августа 2017 г., Coastal Waters Of Southeast Alaska And British Columbia ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Johns Hopkins Glacier
29 августа 2017 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
It's intensely cold on the open deck as we continue up the Inlet. Multiple layers, beanies, and gloves are necessary. But the cold cannot deter how majestic this landscape feels and how in awe we areЧитать далее