Category: Wildlife

For anyone with an interest in nature, Denali National Park deserves a few days of exploring. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have a few days so have to decide how to get the best experience in the shortest time. Although I can take different options because I’m there fairly...

Today was largely a driving day – it’s about 235 miles from our hotel in Anchorage to our B&B in Healy. But it turned out to be much more, with three extremely good moose encounters. We were in no huge hurry to leave the Springhill Suites Anchorage University Lake...

Cathy and I had to make a quick trip to Skagway this morning, and while we fully expected to see some wildlife, we didn’t expect to see as much as we did. The first great sighting was this beautiful big cinnamon bear along Tutshi Lake (yes, “the usual place”)....

Driving to Skagway may be one of my procrastination techniques, but it’s a particularly good one 🙂 On Friday I made the drive despite a mediocre weather report, and it turned out to be an excellent day. I was on the road just before 9:30, and 20 minutes later...

Yesterday was a marathon day of photography. I left the house at 3:30am to shoot the Northern Lights, and didn’t get home until 5:30pm. The result was over 300 photos of a wide variety of subjects from the area bordered by Mary Lake, Jake’s Corner and Skagway. Here’s a...

I’m trying hard to slow down when I travel but so often that just isn’t possible. I have two options – to see something quickly and superficially, or to not see it at all. I was up 2 hours before the 08:34 sunrise on Wednesday in order to maximize...

I’m back home in Whitehorse now, but would like to show you the past few days in southern Alberta and British columbia, including a particularly wonderful 24 hours in the Rockies. Last Monday I went into Calgary with my daughter, to drop my grand-daughters off at school. This was...

I’ve mentioned the walk around the airport before, and yesterday was so pretty I decided to spend some time there after a meeting in town. The trail is paved for a few hundred yards and then is well-tracked dirt with many side-trails. This is the north end of the...

Yesterday was our earliest start, as the departure time for our Tundra Wilderness Tour (TWT) into Denali National Park was 06:50. Although I heard my group go much earlier, I dawdled and didn’t get to the Courtyard Cafe in our hotel, the McKinley Chalet, until almost 06:00. I was...

Day 3 began very early – I went to sleep early last night and I was out taking pictures around Chicken before 06:00 this morning. It was a chilly morning – 39°F (4°C). This is the side road off the Taylor Highway that takes you to the Chicken Gold...