The Mendenhall River is a glacial fed river. The color of the green, milky water is due to the glacial silt. The water level is much higher during the summer months making it nearly impossible to walk the shore.
Juneau Alaska (pronounced June-oh) is a small community snug in the southeast panhandle of Alaska. Surrounded by sea, mountains, and ice fields, roughly 30,000 adventurous souls call it home. The City and Borough of Juneau is larger than the state of Rhode Island, and is the only landlocked state capital in the United States (Hawaii being waterlocked). This area was originally a favorite fishing area of the Tlingit people, while the city was founded around the discovery of gold in the 1880s. Today the top employers are government, tourism, and mining.
(58° 23′ 0″ N, 134° 11′ 0″ W).
2 comments:
I look forward to seeing your beautiful area. Hope to spend a summer in AK one of these years. Till then, I'm enjoying your photos.
Gwyn it that really you?
Good to hear you are recovering--repairing and joining us on DPB.
You have been missed.
As always excellent photos. MB
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