Visits to Alaska National Parks Up in 2011, but Down at Remote Parks

Visits to Alaska National Parks up in 2011, but down at remote parks

Filed under: Southeast Alaska

The new numbers show visitations was down slightly at the heavily visited parks in Southeast Alaska. The Panhandle is the heartland for classic Alaska cruises, and because of cruise ship traffic to Skagway, the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park …
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Southeast Alaska fishing charters suggest daily closures to limit catch

Filed under: Southeast Alaska

Russian Tanker Trying to Get Fuel to Nome Reaches Alaska Port of Dutch Harbor

Russian tanker trying to get fuel to Nome reaches Alaska port of Dutch Harbor

Filed under: Alaska Sport Fishing

AP DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska — A Russian tanker that plans to deliver petroleum products to an iced-in Alaska city has arrived at a fishing port in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The Coast Guard says the 370-foot tanker Renda anchored outside the port of Dutch …
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All I Want for Christmas — Private Jet Travel and a Vacation Too

All I want for Christmas — private jet travel and a vacation too

Filed under: Baja Travel

It’s the Flexjet 25 Jet Card – Baja Adventure edition, offered by Jet Solutions of Richardson. For just $ 137000, card buyers will get 25 hours of private jet travel at almost anytime they choose during the year aboard one of the Learjet 40 XR aircraft …
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Thar she blows! It’s Gray Whale season at Birch Aquarium

Filed under: Baja Travel

Baja Fishing: Baja Fishing at Its Finest

Article by Ed Zieralski

“The very air here is miraculous, and outlines of reality change with the moment. The sky sucks up the land and disgorges it. A dream hangs over the whole region, a brooding kind of hallucination.”– John Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez

On the Sea of Cortez side of sun-drenched southern Baja, where the legendary peninsula juts into the tropical zones, the palm-thatched, king-sized guest rooms and “main house” of Rancho Leonero punctuate the broad green lawns of a tropical clearing of a 350-acre corner of “Old Baja,” nose-to-nose with the pristine blue sea.

Our Alaska: Duck Hunt 2.0

Our Alaska: Duck Hunt 2.0

Filed under: Alaska Wildlife

Our Alaska takes a look at the people, places, activities and wildlife that make Alaska great. There’s the Alaska that many people know from reality television, and then there’s Our Alaska. If you have a video that puts the spotlight on the positive, …
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Camera club to host Alaskan seminar

Filed under: Alaska Wildlife

EASTON Wildlife photographer Ken Conger on Monday will present a seminar titled “Alaskan Wildlife and Landscapes” during the Tidewater Camera Club’s meeting from 7 to 9 pm in the Wye Oak Room at the Talbot County Community Center. …
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Alaska’s “Liquid” Highway

Question by Eric S: Could you use a free vacation somewhere?
What if instead of going to work tomorrow, you instead got to go on a cruiseship with buffet food and snorkel in the pacific ocean?

Would this make you happy right now if you found out this is what you would be doing tomorrow instead of the usual?

What if instead of driving in interstate traffic, you got to enjoy the Alaska Marine Highway instead and watch whales jump around the back of a ship surrounded by mountaintops and glaciers on a ferry boat ride along the Southeast Coast of Alaska? “THE MARINE HIGHWAY”. You park your car on a ferry and just ride your way up a liquid highway.