Alaska animal sightings..
Friday, June 21, 2013 at 9:57PM On our recent trip to Alaska we saw many animals on the Denali Bus tour, on our way to and from Denali, at the wildlife conservatory in Turnagain Arm..
You could watch animals cross the desolate roads.. closest we saw this was at Yellowstone. The area of the preserve has to be really huge for this to happen is our guess!
Here are some of the pictures ..
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That was Dall sheep on the steep cliff faces, elk, grizzlies, moose, musk oxen, an owl, Ptarmigan which happens to be the state bird in Alaska, wood bison which is endangered and caribou!
We are definitely going to plan another Alaska visit for a longer time in a couple of years.. Apparenlty you need to have 20 photographs published to be able to apply for a permit to go inside the park to photograph wild life and it is a lottery system of sorts. Will get there in time!
Reader Comments (1)
Hey my friend !
This is awsome ! If I haven't known you as a super talented engineer (manager) I would recomend you to to switch to nature photography :-)
We visited Alaska 2 years ago -We were in Denali National Park (that was a 18hr trip.. coming from from Israel to Ca and finaly Alaska). It was one of th ebest trips ever ! We started taking picture with our google phone (sometimes presents are a damn curse) while everyone around us using fency zooms...In the first chance in Cosco we bought a state of the art SLR camera and the level went up, unfortuntly that was after Denali trip (but rest of Alaska we had some good pictures). Anyway the Alska trip was fun one of the greatest !. How close were you to the animals ? In th eDenali tour bus we have seen plenty of bears mountain goat etc. but it was, I would say, a good quarter of a mile.. Only very good camera could do it..
BTW we will be visitining Ca Aug 2nd to Aug 9th We can see you than !
later,
Sagy