Our Alaskan experience, our fourth trip to the great state in seventeen years, began early this morning with a 5:20am flight out of Jackson, MS, connecting thru Atlanta and Seattle to arrive in Juneau, Alaska at 2:10pm local time. Our friends who moved to Juneau following our summer of 2006 trip to Alaska was the reason to plan an additional five days in Juneau. Tom, Dianne and I made the typical first stop in Juneau--shopping for t-shirts from the local Harley-Davidson store! Once that task was completed, next priority--vanilla ice cream cone at McDonalds.
We then travel a few miles north of downtown Juneau and walked from the Visitor's Center to the waterfall at Mendenhall Glacier. The final leg of the hike was to walk on small rocks to the waterfall area. Dianne decided it was too dangerous for her, but I, instead, walked in the just-over-the-ankle wat
er instead of the rock steps.
While I took digital images of the waterfall and Mendenhall Glacier from the sandbar area, I ventured into the cold water with tripod and camera equipment to get a closer more direct images of the waterfall. Mission accomplished.
Dianne and I both observed the receding of the glacier since our first trip to the area in 1993. (Oh, no, I can hear Al Gore in the background talking about Global Warming again.)
After taking images of the colorful variety of flowers, we called it a day, after almost twenty-three hours straight of travel and photographic opportunities.
We then travel a few miles north of downtown Juneau and walked from the Visitor's Center to the waterfall at Mendenhall Glacier. The final leg of the hike was to walk on small rocks to the waterfall area. Dianne decided it was too dangerous for her, but I, instead, walked in the just-over-the-ankle wat
er instead of the rock steps.While I took digital images of the waterfall and Mendenhall Glacier from the sandbar area, I ventured into the cold water with tripod and camera equipment to get a closer more direct images of the waterfall. Mission accomplished.
Dianne and I both observed the receding of the glacier since our first trip to the area in 1993. (Oh, no, I can hear Al Gore in the background talking about Global Warming again.)
After taking images of the colorful variety of flowers, we called it a day, after almost twenty-three hours straight of travel and photographic opportunities.
No comments:
Post a Comment