Welcome to Icy Strait Point!

Dock buildings, viewed from the tender that carried us there...probably as we were leaving, judging by the wake in the foreground.

Just to prove we were there. That's the Infinity in the background; there is no dock large enough for a cruise ship there so it had to anchor offshore and use some of the lifeboats as tenders to take passengers ashore.

We saw lots of strange and really neat flowers in Alaska. I have no idea what this one is. [Edit, 7/5/2005: It's a crimson columbine.]

Crimson columbine.

Everyplace we visited is part of Tongass National Forest, a temperate rainforest and the largest national forest in the country -- bigger than all the others combined.

The soil is so thin and poor here that much of the trees' root systems are above ground.

A really scary-looking 6-inch-long slug we encountered on the nature trail outside Hoonah.

A pond on the nature trail by the dock.