Living the Wildlife!

Since we showed photos of big bald birdies yesterday, today we thought we'd show other kinds of wildlife that Mommy and Daddy saw up in Alaska.  They spent most of their vacation on a cruise ship and did see whales, porpoises and lots of sea birds but none sat still long enough for a good photo.  She did get a photo of these sea lions.  Can you spot two?

And of course there were bald eagles everywhere...

After the cruise ended in Seward, AK, they took a three day land tour which included a Tundra Wilderness Tour in Denali National Park & Preserve that promised lots of wildlife to be seen like bears and moose.  Yeah, well, there in there somewhere...

The first critter they spotted was an Artic ground squirrel.  Kinda looks like the non-artic chipmunks huh?

The snowshoe hare is pretty cute and sure has big floofy feets!  Of course in the winter time he'd be all white...

They even saw Willow Ptarmigan which are Alaska's state bird... 

Finally as they got farther into the park they saw big critters like Dall sheep...

Usually they look like little white dots on the mountainside...

They did see lots and lots of caribou like this youngin'...

Despite being on the tour for 8 hours, they didn't see one bear or moose.  Daddy says they'll just have to go back sometime but we might have something to say about that!

What kind of wildlife do you have in your neck of the woods?

Enjoy your day!

PeeS:  All the park photos were taken from a bus since the only way to visit deep inside Denali National Park is via their buses.  It kinda made it hard to see the wildlife let alone get good photos of them but she did the best she could.  They were allowed to get off in designated areas but of course the only wildlife around those areas were tourists from other buses!