Baguettes and Vegemite

2020

Aug 26th – Sept 1st: Why we loved Alaska!

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A – Alaskan Beer

L – Learning stuff about salmon and glaciers

 

This hatchery releases 100 million salmon hatchlings per year. Before setting off to the ocean they spend a month imprinting their place of birth and return there after 5 years at sea. Only 5% survive.
And they are yummy to eat
Mendenhall Glacier has retreated around 2800m in the last 100 years due to climate change. The lake in this picture was covered in ice at the beginning of the 20th Century
Happy birthday

A – Amazing scenery

S – Skagway – doorway to the Yukon and starting point of an amazing bus and train ride

Emerald Lake
The front of the train going over a trestle bridge
Obviously I didn’t take this photo, thanks Wikipedia. The stampeders of the Klondike gold rush had to haul a year’s supplies to the gold fields. It was a distance of 53kms and they had to make many trips, often totalling 4000km. Only to find that all the claims had been taken

K – Ketchikan totem poles

A whale’s tail in the style of a totem pole

A– Arctic (sub) landscape

And it was as cold as it looks

Comments

  3. It’s interesting how people see similarities in the family, a lot of people tell me D1 and D2 look like me lol. Glad you are enjoying our travels!

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