Hi All,  I decided to start a different thread for these Anchorage pics so that these don't get lost in the birthday thread found here:

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Heres a close encounter with a bull moose at one of the spotting locations:

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Heres a couple shots of the Alaskan Railroad that I took from my car while waiting for it to pass after it left the airport station:

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Me at Rust's Flying Service home base getting ready for my floatplane trip that my parents and my aunt paid for for my birthday.  This was a turbo Otter at the dock that got loaded up with a ton of stuff including a boat that a bunch of hunters chartered, I took a Caravan.

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This is a view of the Capps Glacier from my seat on a Rust's Aviation Service Cessna Caravan You need to be a member to view our links.

Self portrait from the back seat of the plane while over the Capps Glacier:

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We flew up a couple of valleys and a couple times we circled and this is what was ahead!  It looks a little more ominous than it was!

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We landed on a pretty remote glacial lake called Beluga Lake that has a milky color from all the sediments that were previously suspended in the ice.  Way cool…it was absolutely silent up here!

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And one more for now.  This is me on my balcony at midnight, showing how Alaska truly IS the land of the midnight sun!

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That's it for now.  I just woke up and it looks like another beautiful day…let's see what kind of mischief I can get into today!  Enjoy!

EDIT:  Oh boy, I seem to have mucked up the alignment of the shots…hope you can sort them out!