Fun, Fun Fun!!

Fun, Fun Fun!!

Monday, June 16 - Denali National Park (Denali Park, AK)

 

Today has been a long day. We were up at 4:30am dressed and left the campground at 5:30. We headed to Denali Village to meet a 6:10 am bus to take us into the park.

We boarded a school bus and other then a few 10 minute breaks we toured the park for the next 12 hours.

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We couldn’t get the front of the bus so we took the back of the bus. It had several rows of seats removed so they could install a wheelchair lift. No one was using the lift so we figured we would  be able to use the space to move around and get good views.

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Susan our guide was very informative and did all she could to get everyone views for good pictures.

We each were given a bag lunch: 2 bottles of water, 1 bottle of juice, 1 bag of chips, 1 bag of crackers, humus in a tube, granola bar, an apple, 1 bag of trail mix a couple of cookies, and a turkey wrap.

We saw sheep, caribou, grizzly  bears with cubs, moose with calves, bald eagle, golden eagle, willow ptarmigan, and arctic ground squirrel.

Here are some pictures:

SHEEP

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CARIBOU

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GRIZZLY BEARS

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MOOSE

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BALD EAGLE

ARCTIC GROUND SQUIRREL

We saw many more of wildlife but way too many to post the pictures here.

Some of the scenery:  A slight glimpse of Mt. McKinley

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The finale: MT. MCKINLEY

4 comments:

Trent and Teresa said...

You guys really did a lot of research to find all these great ideas and bus tours!!

Sure was a full day ... ha ha.

Take care ... TnT

Tom and Marci said...

Beautiful pictures!

Gypsy's Tales said...

What a great day you had - Thanks for the pictures, we are enjoying Alaska through your eyes!

Dominic & Ronnie Sue said...

dominic and i are really enjoying your blog...we feel it's a pre-cursor to what we'll see a day or 2 later!!!!
we are still in fairbanks, leaving at 4am to head to denali....
if you slow down, or we speed up we'll catch up with you!
hope so!...sue