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Southeast Alaska, 2018, Part 2

Days in Alaska in May are long, even in southeast.  All those hours of light leave you wanting to seize each hour you are given.  With that in mind we didn’t waste too much time before we were up and ready to explore, and headed out on a hike.  There are definitely places with worse plants (I’m talking about you, southwest Oregon, and your poison oak), but after being reintroduced to devils club I can say I didn’t miss it one bit.

Devils Club, even the leaves have thorns

 

There was a nice spruce and hemlock forest that was dense enough it made getting around pretty easy.

 

 

Mossy Understory

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Southeast Alaska, 2018, Part 1

Alaska.  Getting there is a trip in itself, but a trip full of rewards.  Getting there, in my experience, involves multiple modes of transport, including boats (vessels?) which for me double as not just a way to get from point A to B, but as a way to experience the place you are in.  But more on all the wonders on the southeast waters in a bit.

 

Icy Strait (yes that little dark spot is a sea otter, more on that in a bit too)

 

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