Alaska – Liana Brooks

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Best of the Pacific Northwest – Winter Wonderland

All right, I admit that this is an odd thing to post in August when Alaska is in the middle of summer, but I’m scheduling these posts in advance and I really can’t justify *not* sharing these winter photos with you. Alaska has the prettiest winters I’ve ever seen. I…

Best of the Pacific Northwest: Moose

The first time you see a moose it’s a little surreal. They look weird. Huge, rounded bodies with giant heads and spindly little legs that don’t look like they can support the bulk. In pictures they look odd. In person you see how tall they are and you realize you…

No Road To Follow

Picture a field of freshly fallen snow. A blanket of powdery white that stretches between the trees. In this field you know there are two things: a road, and a perilously soft shoulder with four feet of packed snow that will eat your car like candy if you get to…

In which our heroine finally gets to see the belugas…

Since arriving in Alaska in early 2015 one thing I’ve been absolutely keen to do is see the beluga whales at Beluga Point. Just a few miles south of Anchorage proper, along the Seward Highway, there is a turn off near an outcropping of stone where -rumor had it –…