San Francisco, 2011-07-09
A Cruise up the Inside Passage, 2011-07-06
July 2011 we took a family cruise through the Alaska Inside Passage.
The highlight of the trip was a visit to the Tracy Arm Fjord.
It was early morning. It was very still.
At the end of the fjord is the Sawyer Glacier. The fjord was undoubtedly cut by that glacier and it’s vanished cousins. The fjord is 600 feet deep below the glacier; you could think of this like floating 600 feet in the air through Yosemite Valley. This cliff would be much higher…
Here’s the Sawyer Glacier:
Though I didn’t get a picture, my most vivid memories are of flocks of large birds in the distance, flying over the water. Geese, pelicans, maybe, flying in silence. This is wilderness — no roads filled with family vans looking for a campsite here.
The side canyons are beautiful and forbidding. The area is part of the “Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness”, and according to the USDA, “…there are no established hiking trails or public recreation facilities…” However, I’m sure that with sufficient determination and resources it would be possible to trek in some of these canyons.
Under way, 2011-06-30
Still Life, 2011-04-25
Yosemite Mist, 2011-04-21
Yosemite Falls, 2011-04-21
Pictures of Oregon Coast, 2010-08-20
Pictures of the Oregon Coast from a driving trip 10 years ago…
Ducks in a row
2020-04-15
Out for a walk, and found a mama duck and babies. This is Crow Canyon Road, a major surface street. Before COVID-19 there would be heavy traffic. But the Samaritan here stopped and shooed them across, and I was able to walk across the road to the center divide to get a picture.
Just around the bend here, on Feb 24, less than two months ago, a 12 year old girl was killed by a hit and run driver. There is a makeshift memorial just out of view.
Walking into the sun 2020-03-29
Hot dogs and peanut butter — life in a coronavirus world
I purchased a package of 36 hot dogs while at Costco recently. Serious business — it goes with the peanut butter and jelly I got several days before that. But sadly, the mustard jar is almost empty.