Can you believe it? Who has the degree in Environmental Science here? Let me check…me! And who has spotted the best three animals so far??? That would be - DAD! Dad has been the first to find moose, dall sheep, and bald eagles!!! Anything I’ve seen first has been a bald eagle, and that was after dad saw the first ones. Oh well. Here are some most excellent pictures from today.

Tomorrow is the all day bear trip at Brooks Falls (National Park Service)



**EDIT** 23:30 6/30/2009 Haha that’s funny. I didn’t get a chance to upload the pictures from the day’s photo shoots because we were off to do a sunset shoot of a volcano - Mt. Redoubt. The best shots from 6/28 were from that night tonight from 10:30 to 11:40pm. Yes, that’s right! As dad said, you could read a newspaper outside at quarter to midnight. So see below for those pictures, and then see further below for the aforementioned bear shots.




****EDIT**** 9:20 7/2/09 Gee, I’m not too good at finishing this post. I was having some website issues a few days ago but everything is working now. Here are the pictures as promised from the first couple days of the trip, in chronological order of our sunset shoot of volcanic Mt. Redoubt - look closely and you’ll see it’s plume, bears at Brooks Falls, evening shoot of the Homer boatyard and bald eagles, the hike to Exit Glacier, and a gelato break in the town we’re currently in (Seward). Sorry they look a bit sloppy at the bottom of the post. If you click on one you can see all of them, larger. Yesterday we had an amazing 10 hour shoot on a small boat with a retired marine biologist, Gerry. I’m going to sort through those 973 photos I took (8 gig!) and hopefully stick those up in a new post tonight.

Dad points My favorite shot so far Sunset over Mt. Redoubt - one smoking volcano!
Sunset over Mt. Redoubt 2 Sunset over Mt. Redoubt 3 - with flower in focus Sunset over Mt. Redoubt 4 - had enough yet?Ah yes, the travelers!
Maybe my second favorite shot so far Try it a little lighter? Bear in the water!
Bear looking over the falls He got one! Yes, this is how close we were.
Stalking fish Magpie Unloading fish at Homer Working hard at the dock!
Loading the basket, waiting to sort through it. Basket away! Note the sunset colors?  This was taken at 10:20pm Working hard
Bald Eagle sidelight Baldy eating something More ships pulling into Homer Eagle in silhouette
Up close and personal - this guy was sitting maybe 9ft above our heads! Alternate angle We didn't get apple fritters, but we did get yummy pizza rolls Third favorite shot!
The hike to the edge of exit glacier, dad asks me to 'hold this, please' Fording the waters of the fjord Oh delicious gelato!

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