Its hard to believe that we have been in Haines for 2 weeks now. We arrived to great weather but of course, this is Alaska and it didn't hold. We have had many rainy days with low visibility. Today is good so far, just cloudy, windy & chilly (our highs have been in the high 40's to mid 50's) but we are supposed to get a big storm in tonight and the snow levels are dropping to 800 feet of elevation on the passes. We are safe as I would guess we are about 10 feet above sea level.
Overall the weather has been typical for Alaska and we are still planning on staying through the Bald Eagle Festival in mid November. At latest guess, there is somewhere around several hundred bald eagles in town now. By the time of the festival, there will be anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 in town enjoying the feast of the late salmon runs here.
Matt has been enjoying photographing both eagles and brown bears while we have been here. I wanted to share some of his great eagle shots with you. I will do a post in a couple of days with some bear shots that he has also.
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| Coming in fast, this Bald Eagle makes an aggressive landing in the Chilkoot river enjoying the late Salmon run of Silvers. |
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| A Bald Eagle is proud of his catch of a Silver Salmon in the Chilkoot River of Haines, Alaska. (All I can say is "EWWWW... YUCK!!!") |
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| Coming in fast, this Bald Eagle makes an aggressive landing in the Chilkoot river enjoying the late Salmon run of Silvers. |
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| A Juvenile Bald Eagle shakes off a water landing on a dry rock |
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| A young bald eagle waits patiently for his choice of the salmon run. |
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A Bald Eagle is enjoying of his dinner of a Silver Salmon in the Chilkoot River of Haines, Alaska. |
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