Tag: nature
member name: Wade H.
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December 23, 2007 11:47 AM EST --
Our trip got off to an odd start. We were to change planes in St Paul Minnesota, but they had overbooked the flight and we got bumped. Instead that gave us a 1st class detour to Seattle. The . . . more
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January 12, 2008 06:59 PM EST --
The second half of the trip was a cruse to Vancover. We left Valdiez and our first stop, in two days, was Sitka, the old Russian capital. It still retains a lot of Russian feel to . . . more
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January 16, 2008 05:47 PM EST --
I think the part of our trip I enjoyed the most was seeing (and hearing) the glaciers., I had no idea glaciers came in so many sizes, shapes and colors. Several times the cruse ship sailed . . . more
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January 25, 2008 02:05 PM EST --
I was lucky enough to catch these pictures of about twenty tons of ice breaking off a glacier. It was maybe a half mile away and the process is called calving.
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February 04, 2008 12:45 PM EST --
We had one final day at sea, but I didn't take many pictures since I didn't want to carry the camera all day. We ended the trip with a day in Vancouver. Of all the cruises I've . . . more
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December 26, 2007 11:28 PM EST --
We left Fairbanks for a five seven hour trip to Anchorage by rail.
All the train cars were Observation cars.
And they did, for a price, . . . more
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December 27, 2007 10:14 PM EST --
We left Anchorage for Valdez where we were to meet our cruise ship. It isn't very far but we took the long way and spent a day at a lodge. It was not at all what I . . . more
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November 30, 2007 05:36 PM EST --
WE sailed up the east coast of England and entered the Firth of Forth. We sailed down the Firth to Edinburgh and ancored for the day
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December 02, 2007 10:34 PM EST --
We left Scotland and sailed into the North Sea. Since Norway is really only about a six or seven hour trip, the QM2 sailed in a big circle so we would have the whole first day to explore the fjord. . . . more
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December 05, 2007 11:37 AM EST --
We left the fjords as the sun set and sailed around the tip of Norway and then north to Oslo. The closer we got to Oslo the more small ships and boats joined us, Soon we were surrounded . . . more
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December 16, 2007 12:50 AM EST --
After we left Hamburg and the Elbe River we sailed a day before going into Rotterdam's harbor.
View from our stateroom as we entered Rotterdam harbor.
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December 30, 2007 08:50 PM EST --
The day before we boarded the cruse ship we went whale watching. Whales are very clever. They know which side of the boat most of the cameras are on and always surface and blow . . . more
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November 12, 2007 07:13 PM EST --
Written after visiting Carlsbad Caverns and the Painted Desert on a recent vacation.
What kind of God puts such beauty in such places?
Hidden deep in the earth,
Unseen, unsuspected, . . . more
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November 21, 2007 01:29 PM EST --
The gulls glide by, turning, dipping, watching,
The glacier moves and groans
A crack, a second crack, a louder groan
The ice begins to split and shatter
Sound rushes down . . . more
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November 05, 2007 08:52 AM EST --
Written after visiting Carlsbad Caverns and the Painted Desert on a recent vacation.
What kind of God puts such beauty in such places?
Hidden deep in the earth,
Unseen, unsuspected, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 04:38 PM EDT --
I wasn't sure where this was going when I started it. I'm not sure it went anyplace now that I'm done with it. Opinions?
The day my father died I didn’t weep
Nor . . . more
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November 18, 2007 08:57 PM EST --
This is a series of fiive photos I took of a glacier calving. I was about 2500 feet away when maybe 20 tons of ice broke o ff. It sounded like an artillery barrage.
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