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| Alaska: landscape inspirations /
early morning Kake
August 2005 wendy.north@btinternet.com |
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| 09 & 10/08/2005 - We
sail into Kake, on the North-east coast of Kupreanof Island, on a mill
pool calm sea, on a brilliant blue day at around noon on the
9th. The setting idyllic. An archipelago of small islands
stretched out across the bay while in the distance snow-capped peaks
fringe the horizon. The view from our lodge doorway simply wows
us. We wonder why we are not staying for a week.
We wake the next morning to this scene where Bald-headed eagles and Great Blue Herons, three of them, are fishing in the bay. It feels as though we are sitting on the set of an excellent nature video. As an added piece of colour a barge with its load of containers makes its way slowly across the bay bringing fresh supplies for the island supermarket. Most goods are transported in this way around the inside passage, even on the main-land many settlements have no road access into them. |