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Sea kayaking in Alaska near Dawes Glacier

Marissa Captures her Alaska Adventure Cruise on Video

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ6MXK2B38] Continuing my love affair with Alaska, I’m living vicariously through Adventure Lifer, Marissa, and this short clip of her adventures in Alaska. In mid-May, Marissa spent a week in the famous panhandle. Spreading her time between hiking to caves, a camping trip, taking a polar plunge, and sea kayaking in one of the last remaining frontiers, her home-base for her Alaska voyage was the 49-passenger expedition vessel, Wilderness Discoverer. [...]

 

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A brown bear fishing for salmon

Wildside of Alaska Travel

Wildlife has come to define Alaska. Images of grand grizzlies, a breaching humpback whale, or a bald eagle snatching a salmon from a stream have come to symbolize the spirit of the United States’ largest state. The list of Alaskan wildlife is long and diverse. Here is a sampling of Alaska’s most famous inhabitants. BEARS Nearly 98 percent of the country’s grizzly bears live in Alaska. They are found throughout [...]