Wow What a Summer-Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good.
When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe videos. Nature's living mirror, however is water---whether still or in motion,The most beautiful landscapes go better with H 2 Ooooooooh! The Happy go Locals don't tan, they rust, and if they smoke, they smoke salmon.The cruisers who inhabit this place for 6 hours a day may have come on different ships, but they are all in the same boat-Mother Nature's.
Here are my top 5 Videos:
Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean-John Muir
Wow What a Summer-Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good.
When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe videos.Nature's living mirror, however is water---whether still or in motion,The most beautiful landscapes are to the nth degree exponentially better with H 2 Ooooooooh!
Here are my top 5 Videos:
Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean-John Muir
A unique Alaskan experience— We took off from Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base, and the self-proclaimed Salmon capital of the world---the place where people don't get old, they rust...and rust never sleeps.
Up in the air for 30 minutes on the single engine "flying boat" and the small remote mountain lakes we saw below would be next to impossible to reach on foot, a reminder that most of this area is still wilderness and accessible only by small boat or plane. In the heyday, I could imagine how snail mail (US) delivery runs must have been done this way.
Hey Hey, My My
Yet they were spectacular by air, like waves each one more powerful than the next. Pilot Jeff Carlin, picked out one of the lakes, landed the "puddle jumper" and JC turned off the noisy diesel engine that was a reminder that we left the the buzz of everyday life. A kind of Dorothy, "No Longer In Kansas" moment.
We stepped out on the pontoon, a big sitka spruce log , leftover from the lumber jack harvesters, lead us to a small granite island. This was to be our platform and ad hoc dock for just now. I breathed in the fresh temperate rain forest air, listening to the silence, and seeing the unspoiled beauty in a 360 panoramic view--- it was awesome. The plane itself was the only man-made object as nature took over. I could imagine being dropped off with fishing gear for a few days and living off this great land on my wits.
Roll video...
A flying boat is a fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water. Anywhere there is blue on the map you can find them. Seaplanes don't need runways.Taking off and landing in water has a romantic fascination because float planes can go places that you can't get to otherwise.
A unique Alaskan experience—
We took off from Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base, and the self-proclaimed Salmon capital of the world---the place where people don't get old, they rust...and rust never sleeps.
Up in the air for 30 minutes on the single engine "flying boat" and the small remote mountain lakes we saw below would be next to impossible to reach on foot, a reminder that most of this area is still wilderness and accessible only by small boat or plane. In the heyday, I could imagine how snail mail (US) delivery runs must have been done this way.
Hey Hey, My My
Yet they were spectacular by air, like waves each one more powerful than the next. Pilot Jeff Carlin, picked out one of the lakes, landed the "puddle jumper" and JC turned off the noisy diesel engine that was a reminder that we left the the buzz of everyday life. A kind of Dorothy, "No Longer In Kansas" moment.
We stepped out on the pontoon, a big sitka spruce log , leftover from the lumber jack harvesters, lead us to a small granite island. This was to be our platform and ad hoc dock for just now. I breathed in the fresh temperate rain forest air, listening to the silence, and seeing the unspoiled beauty in a 360 panoramic view--- it was awesome. The plane itself was the only man-made object as nature took over. I could imagine being dropped off with fishing gear for a few days and living off this great land on my wits.
Roll video...
A flying boat is a fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water. Anywhere there is blue on the map you can find them. Seaplanes don't need runways.Taking off and landing in water has a romantic fascination because float planes can go places that you can't get to otherwise.
The way I see it, if you want to see Rainbow Falls, you gotta put up with the rain.
I think salmon fish in the package is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Many consider the Tongass National Forest to be the "crown jewel" of our national forest system
One thing for sure- It's a Watershed Moment---A point in time when nothing after will ever be the same as before when it comes to my appreciation for precipitation. It's no longer the path of moist resistance. I like the rain.
The way I see it, if you want to see Rainbow Falls,
you gotta put up with the rain.
I think salmon fish in the package is nice,
but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Many consider the Tongass National Forest to be the "crown jewel" of our national forest system
One thing for sure- It's a Watershed Moment---A point in time when nothing after will ever be the same as before when it comes to my appreciation for precipitation. It's no longer the path of moist resistance. I like the rain.
If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing for six months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate, you're supposed to gorge yourself stupid. on salmon I could deal with that too.
Bears are a proud people, although they're not people per-say. They're animals. Bears derive their name from an NFL football team in Chicago. Bears have been known to attack man, although the fact is that fewer people have been killed by bears than in all of World Wars I and II combined, and probably World War 3.
Note to self:“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.”
If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing for six months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate, you're supposed to gorge yourself stupid. on salmon I could deal with that too.
Bears are a proud people, although they're not people per-say. They're animals. Bears derive their name from an NFL football team in Chicago. Bears have been known to attack man, although the fact is that fewer people have been killed by bears than in all of World Wars I and II combined, and probably World War 3.
Note to self:“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.”
And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky
Anywhere there is blue on the map you can find them. Seaplanes don't need runways.Taking off and landing in water has a romantic fascination because float planes can go places that you can't get to otherwise.
And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky
Anywhere there is blue on the map you can find them. Seaplanes don't need runways.Taking off and landing in water has a romantic fascination because float planes can go places that you can't get to otherwise.
5 days a year there is pure sunshine, the rest are liquid. The Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District encompasses over 3.2 million acres of temperate rainforest, mountain peaks, glaciers, alpine tundra, muskegs, lakes, rivers, and streams. Time to take a hike and listen to The Beatles...
The first tune I learned to play on guitar was “Horse With No Name”, the second, "Here Comes The Sun”. It’s light and simple and my favorite George Harrison song. The song is in A chromatic-minor with an A tonic major chord.[2] The refrain uses a IV (D chord) to V (E chord) progression (the reverse of that used in "Eight Days a Week" ). The melody in the verse and refrain basically follows the pentatonic scale from E up to C♯ (scale steps 5, 6, 1, 2, 3.Now where is my guitar..oh yea--- Gently weeping.
5 days a year there is pure sunshine, the rest are liquid. The Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District encompasses over 3.2 million acres of temperate rainforest, mountain peaks, glaciers, alpine tundra, muskegs, lakes, rivers, and streams. Time to take a hike and listen to The Beatles...
The first tune I learned to play on guitar was “Horse
With No Name”, the second, "Here Comes The Sun”. It’s light and simple and my
favorite George Harrison song. The song is in A chromatic-minor with an A tonic major chord.[2] The refrain uses a IV (D chord) to V (E chord) progression (the reverse of that used in "Eight Days a Week" ). The melody in the verse and refrain basically follows the pentatonic scale from E up to C♯ (scale steps 5, 6, 1, 2, 3.Now where is my guitar..oh yea--- Gently weeping.
If people concentrated on the really important things they'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Carpet Diem means fish of the day around here. Pinks and Silver-Ko ho salmon.
Fishing is actually boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting
I Hear Invoices
I am thinking of that movie with Brando " I coulda been a contender." the central theme of the coulda, shouda, woulda crowd. At sea, however, we have no CNN effect nor 57 channels to tell us our dancing, singing and comedy is not good enough as American Idol-click- or DWTS-click, TMZ-click or Reality TV.
The Way In Is The Way Out It's all self referential which ends up being the way out of the Contender Syndrome and America’s culture of envy, and wanting be, do, and have more. The disease of more is really an indictment of our own judgments that we haven’t accomplished enough. Reaching our potential comes from a discrepancy between the ‘actual self’ (who we are), the ‘ideal self’ (who we’d like to be), and the ‘ought self’ (who we think others want us to be).
If people concentrated on the really important things they'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Carpet Diem means fish of the day around here. Pinks and Silver-Ko ho salmon.
Fishing is actually boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting
I Hear Invoices
I am thinking of that movie with Brando " I coulda been a contender." the central theme of the coulda, shouda, woulda crowd. At sea, however, we have no CNN effect nor 57 channels to tell us our dancing, singing and comedy is not good enough as American Idol-click- or DWTS-click, TMZ-click or Reality TV.
The Way In Is The Way Out
It's all self referential which ends up being the way out of the Contender Syndrome and America’s culture of envy, and wanting be, do, and have
more. The disease of more is really an indictment of our own judgments that we haven’t accomplished enough. Reaching our potential comes from a discrepancy between the ‘actual self’ (who we are), the ‘ideal self’ (who we’d like to be), and the ‘ought self’ (who we think others want us to be).