alaska

Before l start, as seen this will be my first contest l do from @friendlymoose, where you can either show a photo of a river or lake, be...

Finally we say our goodbyes to Sitka and head out of a civilized area and get to enjoy the peace and Alaskan Wilderness. All to ourselves...

Once again we do another night shift from Icy Bay which was about 140nm (200km) and took us just over 24 hours, we arrive around mid-day ...

This is the Alaska that I see in my mind when I close my eyes and daydream about being back there. Water, so calm that it reflects the m...

I thought the clouds, the meadow, and the mountains all camme together for a great view in this photo. In true expedition fashion, we an...

We shared an intimate encounter with this brown bear from our kayaks this morning. Another Alaska memory to store away forever. We saw f...

Walking on the plateau, with beautiful lakes and ponds between the ridges. There is some interesting geology going on here. What scenery...

The reflective surface of Aniakchak lagoon. I love bringing people here for the photographic opportunities. Sometimes, the best travel s...

... Moscow. No ceasefire, no sanctions, just prestige for Putin. This isn’t the ‘🇩🇪 is back’ leadership we were promised. #politics #cent...

Putin just said in English to Trump the next meeting should be in Moscow in Russia. I had several accounts on Xanga, some of those blogs ...

Overlooking a secret bay on the island of Unga. Once the bustling home of the Unangan Native people, this island has been taken over by ...

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One of my favorite photos from the trip. Three horned puffins, all in different phases of taking off from the rocky ledge. Sanak Island....

I had Christian put me onshore here to get this picture while standing in a natural rock arch. This visit to the Alaskan Native town of ...

I really liked how this picture came out. The large circle in the foreground in the mount for a huge Panama gun. It could fire on just a...

Finally we leave Holgate Glacier to Chance Lagoon which has a pretty tight entrance - however as we headed towards the anchorage we come ...

Rugged shoreline of Akutan Island. This is a wild part of Alaska that not many people get to see. We went to check out this rock to see...

This is English bay - however in the 1880s it was named Alexandrovsk Bay according to the Natives that live there. Just to the left of E...

Homer was just a small jump from Seldovia about 12nm (20km) [DEUTSCH] Homer war nur ein kleiner Sprung von Seldovia entfernt, etwa 12 nm ...

A brilliant horned puffin, lit up by the mid morning light streaming through one of the sea arches. Today was one of our best days of th...

Our kayakers and small boats hanging out with thousands of feeding sea birds with whales surfacing in between them. We were offshore fro...

Beautiful Imuya Bay, untouched wilderness, and we are here to explore. This is how you do expedition cruising. The spot I had picked out...

If you have seen my other post about our Kodiak circumnavigation, this was our start and end point: Kodiak Port. And if you haven't, be ...

A swimming Katmai bear, heading our way! It was another spectacular visit to Katmai National Park in Alaska. Known for its bears, it did...

My coworker, Christian, took this photo from one of our small boats. I am in the middle in the orange, setting up a paddle high-five in ...

Jumping into Unakwik Inlet like... Today we explored a wondrous place called Unakwik Inlet here in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This wa...

One of my favorite photos of the day. This scene was on tripod hill, about 1,000ft up. The cloud layer was just above us, but we could s...

View from the drone, high above our ship's anchorage on our first morning at Tiger Glacier. It feels good to be back in Alaska. After tr...

This cannery is quite unique as it isn't owned by a huge fishing industry - this is owned by Steel (By a person). We were told by the lo...

Finally with a bit of wind - we hoist up the sails and turn off the engines. Technically we were sailing, but l thought drifting was a ...