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Humpback Whales, Chathan Strait, Southeast Alaska  – Image 2424

Humpback Whales, Chathan Strait, Southeast Alaska – Image 2424

A humpback whale flips its tail high above the water as it dives, and another whale exhales or blows as it surfaces. Whales are mammals and as a mammal they have to breath air. A humpback whale tail or fluke is about 15 feet from tip to tip or roughly the length of a VW bug. This photo ...
Juneau Icefield, Hole in the Wall Glacier  – Image 2422

Juneau Icefield, Hole in the Wall Glacier – Image 2422

Glacier trekkers on tour with Northstar Helicopters cross the Hole in the Wall Glacier in the Juneau Icefield. The four helicopter companies in Juneau take over 150,000 visitors a season to see the glaciers. This photo illustrates the month of May in my 2006 Juneau Alaska Calendar. Camera: ...
Killer Whales, Juneau, Alaska  – Image 2421

Killer Whales, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2421

Killer whales surface with the Eagle Glacier in distant view. They are regular vistors to the waters surrounding Juneau. Killer whales usually travel in pods containing 3 to 40 animals. These pods of whales are much like wolf packs and travel in family groups covering vast areas within ...
Lions Head Mountain, Berners Bay, Juneau, Alaska  – Image 2420

Lions Head Mountain, Berners Bay, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2420

I photographed my wife having her morning coffee on the beach through the window of the forest service cabin at the head of the bay. The view of Lions Head Mountain from the cabin is stunning. Berners Bay is a wonderfully safe wilderness kayaking/boating area that the recreational day users ...
Black Bear by Governor’s Mansion, Juneau, Alaska  – Image 2419

Black Bear by Governor’s Mansion, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2419

Black bears parade through Juneau on a fairly regular basis. I photographed this bear within two hundred feet of the Governor's Mansion in downtown Juneau. Last summer, a sleeping exchange student was sun bathing in our neighbors yard and got nuzzled by a bear. Without opening his eyes the ...
Brown Bear, Admiralty Island  – Image 2418

Brown Bear, Admiralty Island – Image 2418

I photographed this brown bear while visiting my friends, Joe and Karey, at their wilderness lodge in Crab Cove, Funter Bay, Admiralty Island. I have an ongoing photo series on my friends wonderful lodge (see image numbers: 2301, 2302, 2303, 2304, 2305, 2306, 2307 and 2323). This photo ...

“As a kid in Buffalo, New York, I always wondered what it would be like to encounter a whale,” says Mark Kelley. Learn more about Mark…