At lake Hood in Anchorage, the busiest seaplane base in the world. |
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Driving down the Seward Highway. This is the Cook Inlet. |
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Halfway to Moose Pass is Portage Glacier. The Glacier itself is in the distance but a piece of ice was floating near shore. It looks colder than it was, but this was the weather for most of the week - overcast and grey. |
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A neat looking mushroom on a pullout off the highway. |
More views along the Seward highway. |
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And here is the seaplane base in Moose Pass. I was here to get a seaplane rating. :) (http://www.alaskafloatratings.com/) |
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The cabins there. Very cozy. |
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Mark, myself, and James. Mark was on holiday with his wife, and James was an instructor/pilot there. |
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Some fresh fish. Really fresh :) |
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Sitting around the pilot room in the evening. Marijka is near the left, then Andy, Darlene (my instructor), myself, and Duane (hiding). |
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Vern - the DPE and reason the school and business exist, is at the head of the table. I only got to hear a few of his stories - guess I will have to go back to get some more. :) |
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It was Andy and Marijka's birthday, so there was a cake that night. Any excuse for a gathering! |
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First day out flying. This was the only day I took pictures aloft; the camera was too big and I was too busy flying. It was beautiful though. |
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The 206 takes off to pick up some hikers. |
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Inside the cabin. |
The first night I drove down to the end of the road - Seward - just to see what was there. It's a fishing town, and it was pretty quiet by the time I showed up (8:30 pm or so). And it rained the entire drive down and back. |
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Some tankers that sat at the end of the cul-de-sac in Moose Pass. |
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A view from near the train trestle into Upper Trail lake. |
The Alaska railroad had at least a train or two per day cross this bridge. |
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A panorama looking out on the dock towards the airplanes. The lake is Upper Trail lake. The train bridge is on the right. |
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flight track 1 flight track 2 flight track 3 Pictures don't do the flying justice. If you are interested in
reading how the training went, you can read a
summary of what we did each flight.
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Some glassy water looking towards Upper Trail lake. |
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The airplanes from next to the train bridge. |
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I was playing with the camera :) |
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Driving back to Anchorage a few days later, I stopped at a wildlife park near the western end of the Cook Inlet. You can read the sign for yourself. |
A moose. They are bigger than I expected. |
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Musk Ox. |
Brown Bear - these poor guys were pacing back and forth along the fence line. I expected these to be bigger. |
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Some views from the wildlife park. |
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Moose calves |
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Elk |
Black bear. Also pacing, but not quite so frantically. |
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Looking at the Cook Inlet driving back to Anchorage. |
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