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Our very attractive and very tall, buffed out raft guide. I am not allowed to remember her name. She jumped in the water and pulled the boat up on the bank for lunch refusing any help. At the end of the tour, drove the van pulling the raft and trailer. She said she had been rowing ever since she was a little girl with her dad and through college. She had a degree in geology, and lived full time in Canada or Alaska. This was her 5 or 6th or more summer on the river.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 09:32 AM•Views: 101
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A young bald eagle on the Klondlike River Raft Float. Bald eagles grow their white tail and head feathers only at about 5 years old. This one is speckled, so it is a juvenile. This is one of two bald eagles we saw in this float, both juvenile. #348 of this composite was 2013:08:18 09:36:21
Exposure time: 1/800 F-stop: 14.0 O speed: 800 Focal length: 55mm So I switched to my 70-300mm lens.
Upload Date: Sep 12, 2013 02:29 PM•Views: 99
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The float was very smooth, although our guide expertly had to steer us around some mild rapids.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 09:45 AM•Views: 98
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The only golden eagle we saw, and it was in flight by the time I got my camera on him or her. 2013:08:18 10:08:39
Exposure time: 1/3200 F-stop: 7.1 ISO speed: 800 Focal length: 300mm cropped
Upload Date: Sep 12, 2013 02:29 PM•Views: 99
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Sharon and sorry-I-forget-your-name from New York and raft guide ?Sue? On shore for lunch break.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 10:25 AM•Views: 101
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A mother duck and 5 ducklings. I could not find the name. 2013:08:18 10:49:49 Exposure time: 1/640 F-stop: 5.0 ISO speed: 400 Focal length: 210mm
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 10:49 AM•Views: 78
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Black spruce tiny pine cones cluster near the top. If conditions are right these trees are tall, but often short due to cold and short growing season. The branches are short making them thin even at the base. They consequently drop their cones very close to the parent tree and tend to crowd out other species. They are said to be useless, too tar filled (creosote) to build with or even to burn for fuel.
2013:08:18 10:58:34 Exposure time: 1/1250 F-stop: 5.6 ISO speed: 400 Focal length: 300mm
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 10:58 AM•Views: 78
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Black spruce, and Birch trees turning already. Well it is 2013:08:18 11:12:49 Exposure time: 1/800 F-stop: 7.1 ISO speed: 400 Focal length: 70mm
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:12 AM•Views: 76
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Witch's broom growing in a black spruce. These are parts of the tree that grow abnormally as a response to parasites or other abnormal conditions, but do not kill the tree.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:14 AM•Views: 76
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We have now floated onto the silt filled Yukon River from the clear water Klondike River. This is where they merge at Dawson. The silt is very fine ground sand from glacier melt water that is washed out from the glacier and so fine it does not settle to the bottom. A few hundred yards downstream the confluence is silty as is all of the lower Yukon as far north as Fort Yukon, which we visited just above the arctic circle. Through Whitehorse, the Yukon is pretty clear, with only a little silt. 2013:08:18 11:48:49 Exposure time: 1/640 F-stop: 6.3 ISO speed: 400
Focal length: 70mm
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:48 AM•Views: 76
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Fireweed which is common and grows rapidly after a forest fire, hence its name. Here it is on the banks of the Yukon in Dawson. Note how little grows up in the tailing of the dredges.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:19 AM•Views: 76
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Fireweed.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:29 AM•Views: 76
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This mountain is the Midnight Dome over Dawson. A road goes up it now, but before there was a community party at the top on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, at midnight. It was quaisi-religious having been started by a number of local Christian ministers who led or met some of their congregations at the top over a foot trail. This first recorded group to gather on the Midnight Dome to watch the midnight sun was in 1899. The occasion was a catered event with entertainment. There were candies, cigars and drinks. And for entertainment the group invited a poet by the name of Captain Jack Crawford to recite some poems from his collection.
Unfortunately, the groups timing was off as the sun set 1/2 an hour before midnight - only to rise again 2 hours later..
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:30 AM•Views: 77
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Some remains of the 74 mile "Yukon Ditch" left in the Yukon River. It was built by the Yukon Gold Company in the early part of this century to deliver water for the hydrological mining and dredges.. Google "the yukon ditch" to find a treatise on it written in 1908 by an engineer (who'd think I'd like that?) who visited it while it was being built. It was ..."a system of ditch, pipe, and flume that has a total length of a little more than 70 miles." according to the engineer
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 11:37 AM•Views: 78
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I took this image off a site http://www.riding-the-usa.com/2013/04/day-16-dawson-city-part-2.html because I forgot to take a photo of the Dawson Spirit side wheeler, on which we rode the afternoon of the the trip on it up and down the Yukon. It is about 15 years old and we cruised down (N) the Yukon about 5 miles and back then up the Yukon to past the Klondike about 3 miles the other direction. Sharon said they had good coffee. But then she said everyone one had good coffee. She even terms mine I bring to her "wonderful!"
Upload Date: Sep 12, 2013 02:14 PM•Views: 75
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