Road Trip Part Three Heading Home

[aerianya]

Took me a while to get back to this. This weekend was full of Thunderbirds in the sky, celebrations and festivals all over the city as The 50th Anniversary of Statehood was marked the 28th.
Yesterday was my eye appointment and only slightly bad news there. A little raise in my reading portion of my glasses, but I have to get a field vision test because of the higher pressure in my eyes. She's sure it's probably stress (go figure)
and not really concerned but felt it should be done in the next few months.
Now to the piccies.

Another baby iceberg in Portage Lake


Portage Glacier Observation


Another glacier seen from the same place



Closer shot of snow on the glacier (can't remember it's name)


On the road home a place you can pan for gold (for a price)


A shot of rock outcropping off the road



Same from another angle (flying by)


He posed before taking off.


Potter Marsh
This Arctic Tern was pitching a fit over where we were parked. Too close to a nest maybe?

Seagull

Red-Necked Grebe

Comments

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

Mooooooose!!

And cool birdies! And is that really a duck in the last picture? Cool!

And a baby glacier!

Love the pics, obviously!

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

really a duck?
I really don't know. It's some sort of water fowl.
Potter Marsh

I should have looked it up but T wouldn't stop any more and the ID sign was where we weren't.
When we first went out there when I was a child The Glacier was came right down to the road where the parking lot is now.

ETA It's a Red-necked Grebe

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

i'm so dissappointed in you. no pics of the thunderbirds? how could you?!

::grins::

love the moose, btw.

-bs

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

no pics of the thunderbirds?
Fact is we were going to the airshow but just never made it. I watched from the Sam's Club parking lot for a while but the weather was just not really good for it.
*and they just move too FAST! But we heard them all week.
I have a weakness for moose too. Did you see the pix of the one in our backyard last year?
Moose in the trash

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

i just looked at the moose in the trash, and it makes me laugh. :-D

i hear you about the fast thunderbirds. not really fair tho, is it, that sometimes the coolest things to get pics of move just too darn fast to come out well! but i was mostly yanking your chain over it - i'm an aerospace engineer, so i 'have' to be miffed when people don't photograph the planes, hee. and i love airshows, but to be honest... i'd probably forget to even try for photos in the excitement of the moment!

-bs

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

Personally I'm a memory is better than picture person. I hate missing the moment trying to get a shot of it.
But pictures are good too.
An aerospace engineer very cool. I think my uncle did something on that order too. He worked at Redstone Arsenal from the 40's (I think) until he retired. He sadly passed away a couple of years ago.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

sorry about your uncle. we are in the unfortunate position, industry-wide, of having a large gap between retiring engineers, and those entering the field. this means there's a serious knowledge/ experience gap about to happen, and that's not good for smooth operations, you know? in addition, in some areas, we are in danger of re-inventing the wheel, since those areas have been ignored too much to be commercially viable for so long that the guys who did a lot of the work are literally dying off. it's a sad thing.

-bs

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful pictures...

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

It was a good day.Not pretty but nice and i finally got a pic of an iceberg.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh - Moose!

Your photos are always so gorgeous... and moose!

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

Glad you think so. I'm still learning this camera. That moose was just posing and preening while we took his picture and then he decided we had enough pictures and mooseyed off.
*heh my spellchecker doesn't like my pun....