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Brown Bears Hunting Salmon at Brooks Falls Alaska

September 29, 2021 Leave a Comment

Bears catching salmon at top of Brooks Falls

It’s Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park. The brown bears are matched against each other in a “march madness” style competition and online visitors can vote who is ultimately crowned the Fat Bear Week 2021 Champion. In honor of Fat Bear Week, we are reposting our July 2011 blog of when we spent hours […]

Filed Under: Alaska, Featured-Trips, Katmai Peninsula, Kenai Peninsula Tagged With: bear jam, bears, Brooks Lodge, brown bears

Mendenhall Glacier

August 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Getting to Mendenhall Glacier from Juneau The Mendenhall Glacier is about 13 miles from downtown Juneau Alaska. You can reach it in various ways from Juneau: Taxi. While we thought this would be a reasonable cost, it ended up being expensive as taxis need a special permit to drop people at the glacier. They charge […]

Filed Under: Alaska, Featured-City, Hiking, Juneau, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing Tagged With: Mendenhall Glacier

Exploring Juneau Alaska

August 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

Juneau State Capitol Building

We ended a 7 day 8-night boat cruise through the Alaska Inner Waterways by disembarking in Juneau. We were last in Juneau in 2011 when we: Explored the downtown area in-depth (and when Juneau has more tourists) Learned more about salmon and Took some day trips from Juneau. This trip was a slightly different experience […]

Filed Under: Alaska, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Juneau, Museums, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States Tagged With: Alaska Fish & Chip Company Tracy's King Crab Shack, Alaska State Museum, Mendenhall Glacier

An Alaskan Itinerary

August 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

Admiralty Dream Boat

Cruising Alaska We normally are not big fans of taking cruises. But sometimes it is the best way to see an area. We did our last trip in 2011 to Alaska through a combination of flights and boat day tours. This time we wanted to spend more time on the water and not in the […]

Filed Under: Alaska, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Juneau, North America, Sitka, Travel, United States Tagged With: Mendenhall Glacier

Guide to Skagway Alaska

August 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Getting to Skagway While we were in Alaska, we wanted to visit the Gold Rush city of Skagway, a place we had visited on our first trip to Alaska eons ago. One can get there by water or air. We took a short (45 minute), very scenic flight in a 6-seat plane from Juneau. We […]

Filed Under: Activities, Alaska, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, North America, Restaurants, Skagway, Travel, United States Tagged With: Captain William Moore, Dawson City goldfields, George Carmack, Historic Skagway Hotel, Klondike Gold Rush Visitor Center, Martin Itjen, Skuokum Jim Mason, Soapy Smith, stampeeders

Alaska Cruise Day 5 and 6 – Glacier Bay

August 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

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On the fifth and sixth full days of our Alaskan cruise on the Admiralty Dream from Alaska Dream Cruises, we went to one of our favorite Alaska destinations: Glacier Bay. We were last there in 2011 when we took a small plane to Glacier Bay National Park, where we stayed overnight at the Glacier Bay […]

Filed Under: Alaska, Destinations, Featured-City, Glacier Bay, North America, Travel, United States Tagged With: Bartlett Cove, Fairweather Mountains, Glacier Bay. Margerie Glacier, Grand Pacific Glacier, John Hopkins Glacier, Tlingit Trail

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