Alaska Highlights

Here's a few highlights from my Alaska trip:


I love Seattle every time I visit. It was great spending time with my dad there.




If you look closely, you can see the mother eagle on the branch, and the baby eagle in the nest. These wildlife pictures were taken in Ketchikan.




This was a picture of a sunset taken somewhere between 10:30 and 11:00. I was never up to see the sunrise, but I was told it was rising between 3:30 and 4:00.




Up by Hubbard Glacier, the ship drove through a field of icebergs. Sometimes there would be animals (like seals and otters) sitting on them.



When the boat stopped by the glacier, so did the wind. Pretty soon I decided it was too warm to wear my jacket. We couldn't have asked for better weather.




I'm really glad I paid the extra money to take the helicopter to Mendenhall Glacier (outside Juneau) and hike around for a few hours. The ice climbing was way fun!



I'm kinda frustrated with how the picture above turned out. The sunlight was reflecting off the ice, so it looks a lot lighter than it was. It was pretty much the color of the blue water in the picture below. I thought my mind was playing tricks with me, because from my perspective it looked like I was walking on water. I was partly concerned that I'd fall through a thin layer of ice into a pool of extremely cold water!




This vacation was definitely worth it!