Photos! Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots of Photos!

This time there are 161 photos. I apologize for the load time, but... you wanna see all these anyway, rather than read my ramblings, right? :)

I'll add more captions later. We have a ferry to catch.

Our first stop in Alaska: Ketchikan. (Catch it if you can?)

Hehehe.

Totem pole #1  (It wasn't that old. It was carved in 1993.)

They're like Takoma Park! (Except TKPK's been a Tree City for much longer!)

This is a salmon ladder. There were no salmon. We were too early, or they were running late...

Normally, or at the appropriate time, this creek would be full of salmon.

But there were none.

We saw flickers tho!

Creek Street. Hahahahahahaha. The one place that's does "brothel tours" is right behind us. We're the blue blob on the right.

More of Creek Street.

The tunnel you can go through, around, and over.......overkill I think.

Starfish!

Starfish again! These were right in the docks of Ketchikan.

A lighthouse off the ferry.

Another lighthouse.

WHALE!

Submerged whale.

Another beautiful sunset on the water.

Little did we know, we really needed to drink up that sunshine. Southeast Alaska doesn't see much of it.

Whale.

FLUKE!

More fluke!

Come baaaaaaccccckkkkkk!

Morningtime on the boat: see the sun is all gone.

We can see their breath.

Pretty water and pretty mountains.

More pretty, snow-capped mountains.

Mendenhall Glacier.

First sign we see getting off the ferry in Juneau. Wait...end of the road? Is that really a place?

Eagles!

For Jade. :)

Part of the Glacier Gardens Adventure.

Awww...a bear momma and bear baby totem pole.

View from the top.

Another view from the top.

Coulda gone rolling through that with one wrong turn of the golf cart's steering wheel... It would have been a beautiful demise.

Upside down hemlock "pots".

This color on the ground is really necessary because the sky was gray.

Mendenhall Glacier and very big waterfall. It looks little, but a person is approximately one pixel.

See?

I'm really glad that thing isn't going anywhere fast.

Look at all that moss!

And all that moss!

There are icebergs in that water...

Brrr...

Pretty...

Those little white fuzzy spots are actually fuzzy animals. Bighorn sheep I think.

Iceberg becomes ice cube. (Okay, ice cube for a giant, sure, but...)

Ice shark attack!

Reflective moment.

Eagle ice cube?

Looking away from Mendenhall Glacier.

Slide-n-swim anyone?

Biiiiiiigggg waterfall.

Pretty picture! Oh, I think the sun might've come out for this one!

Glacier from our campground.

MORE MOSS!

West side of the Glacier. I guess Mom and Dad went for a hike...

I do NOT want to play on that.

Stuffed eagles' nest in the Alaskan State Museum.

Stuffed eagle.

Me just playing around with the low light. Well, that's not me. That's an eagle...

Oh, see? This is the Bald Eagle Nest Tree. Just in case we were wondering...

Attack! Attack! Attack!

Adult on the left; immature on the right.

Abacus! Right up my alley.

Geography lesson time

We were about dead center on this part of the map.

Wasilla is just a little north of that finger of water, I think.

Those tips, up near the top in the middle, that is where you MIGHT (but I don't think so) be able to see Russia.

No where else.

Swords...he he he.

Sunglasses!

This dude was bad. Yet his nickname was "Soapy" -- something clean.

All Confidence, Bunco and Sure-thing Men // And, all other objectionable characters // Are notified  to leave Skaguay (Skagway) and White Pass Road Immediately. // And to remain away.
Hahahahahaha

Looking through a lighthouse lens.

A thingy they soaked up oil from the Valdez with.

"Evidently, we're leaving some oil." Well no duh.

My steering wheel!

Ashley, outside of the boat. 

My feet, inside of the boat.

The ladder out. 

Most of the Eye-Spy puzzle on the wall of the kid's room in the Alaska State Museum.

Tlingit mask.

That's all one piece! They wore pants with attached booties!

Sara-May...are you sure you're not part Tlingit?

More spirit masks.

Creeeeeppppyyy.

A diaper!

Hat #1! #1 Hat?

Captain's hat. Aka the Pirate Hat.

Those spiky things are made from some animal's horns...

The globe. I think this was showing the wave heights following the earthquake in Japan of March 2011.

This was a sculpture outside the Alaska State Museum. It was called the Nimbus, in reference to that kind of cloud. I don't get the connection...

More sheep blobs...

This raven wanted to be friends with Ashley. More like it wanted some of her Poptart.

"End of the Road". Not a very happenin' place. Hahaha.

The road will go on! One day...

In case you didn't realize that...

The other way from the end of the road.

Geese? Ducks?

Back on a boat to Sitka.

The boat was working hard.

I didn't bring anything on board. So I was bored. And so you get a picture of my feet.

How do people get to this farm?

There is probably an eagle on that island.

People do exist up here!

We saw this sign from the boat. It was super tiny.

That, for sure, is an eagle.

More totem poles!

Both of these birds are in this area. Two main groups of the Tlingit tribe are named after these birds.

Toad. Frog. Something.

So they make surfboards in totem pole making shops?

This was sitting three feet to the right of the surfboard looking thing in the picture above.

More totem poles! I think these were older than 1993.

But not this one! This one had very bright colors.

I don't understand what the fun is in putting people and animals upside down on these things, but it sure was popular.

Oh nooooo!

Pirate ship fading into the mist? Or cruise ship? Okay, okay... cruise ship...

SLUG! BIG slug.

There's a totem pole hiding in there.

Sea cucumber!! This was at the Sitka Science Sound Center.

Where's Nemo? Oh, wrong fish.

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...! My bubbles!

Ashley, the snorkeler.

Megan, the octopus.

More sea cucumbers!

I'm gonna touch it! Squishy!

Starfish.

Lots of different kinds of starfish.

Bishop's House.

Icon of the first Bishop, Bishop Innocent.

Sea otter skin. They are long.

Tea maker thing.

Hahaha. The student wrote their schedule on the wall. Ha!

Bishop's House.

St. Michael's Cathedral.

Another lighthouse.

Wow! That's a lot of eagles!

More eagles!

Those could leave dents...

Pretty lighthouse, artsy picture.