~~~Emily's Notes~~~: Alaska

Here are the pictures that I promised in my last post. Most of them are just scenery pictures. This trip was an amazing glimpse at some of God’s creation, and pictures don’t do it justice. While on a glacier tour in the Prince William Sound, I got to experience a “calving” (this is what they call it when a hunk of ice falls off the glacier). I saw several small calvings and then a huge piece of one broke off. We felt the wakes that that one made. I didn’t even try to count all the glaciers we saw, because there were lots of them. Most of them have names and in one area they were named after Wisconsin Colleges! As for wildlife, I saw moose, (even baby moose!), doll sheep, mountain goats, sea lions, seals, and millions of black-legged Kittiwakes ( a gull-like bird). I can now say that I have been on most modes of transportation, within 48 hours I traveled by car, train, boat, and airplane. I liked them all.

Mountains

Trains- the blue and yellow one is the one we rode on!

Grandma, Aunt Gail, and Jacob

The Glacier tour – the boat

Our wake

One of the many glaciers we saw.

If we look a little wet in this picture it’s because we were. It rained most of the time we were on the boat. Thankfully the cabins were heated, and if there were places you could stand outside without getting to wet. Despite the cold and rain, I spent as much time as I could outside the cabin. It was more fun to be out!

Another glacier

A hanging glacier

Water falls!

We got really close to this waterfall!

The last part of the tour was viewing a rookie, it’s the largest kittiwakes rookie in the world. Every white dot is a bird. (This is also where we saw the mountain goats.)