Elias playing peek-a-boo

Taken a couple weeks ago, when Elias was just about 8 months old. He's doing great- such a happy, alert baby. He's got 2 bottom teeth and one - nearly two - top chompers. Maille and Finn are so good with him - hard to imagine having anything other than this trio.

Flight to Anchorage this morning

Taken out the window this morning... hoping to get back to Juneau tonight.... steady winds at 40-45 MPH with gusts to 60 MPH... Just might end up back in Anchorage, or Sitka, or Seattle, or who knows, this time of year....

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Johns Hopkins Inlet, Glacier Bay

Was up in Johns Hopkins Inlet last Thursday to scout for candidate climate station sites. Forecast was very poor before and after, but Thursday was the weather window we were looking for, so we jumped on it. I flew over on the air taxi Wednesday afternoon, and we met at the dock at 7 AM. Justin took us up in the Capelin, first dropping us at Topeka to check on one of the existing sea-level sites. The Glacier was active, calving every couple minutes with deep, thunderous cracks. We got picked up and dropped again at Jaw Point, where we climbed up a crack and a snowmelt stream to just over 1000' to scout sites on a bedrock bench. Absoultely spectacular views from up on top... not that it was ugly from the boat... Checked one more sea-level site after that (at Tyeen), then made the run back down to Scidmore Cut where we picked up Tania and Nat who had been checking on the remnants of the humpback whale that washed up there last winter. Tania picked up her three motion and timer cameras that were used to monitor use of the carcass by brown bears, and we made the run back into Bartlett Cove. At least half a dozen humpbacks milling around a the mouth of Gieke Inlet. It was a spectacular rare sunny day sandwiched in between two nasty gales. Flight back on Thursday night had broken clouds and golden skies over Icy Strait and Cross Sound to the west, and plenty of mountain goats in the hills between Lynn Canal and Excursion Inlet.

The approach up Johns Hopkins Inlet, from the cabin of the Capelin

Johns Hopkins Inlet and glacier, with Mt. Horrible and Mt. Wilbur

On the ground at Topeka

On top of Jaw Point at 1060', head of Johns Hopkins in background

The Capelin coming in to pick us up

Some recent Glacier Bay pics

Stellar sea lions at South Marble Island

Brown bear fishing for sockeye in the stream, while a harbor seal fishes for sockeye at the mouth

Two brownies fishing for sockeye

Stellar sea lions

Tufted Puffin

Commute home tonight

Over Icy Strait, looking toward Cross Sound. Flying with Air Excursions in
a Cherokee.

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We just need our space... kind of.

After months of escalating turf battles, Maille and Finn just got the news that they're each going to get their own rooms - the bunk beds are coming down. The most exciting part for them - after all the build-up about getting and deserving their own space? That they'll get to have sleep-overs in each other's room. Well, that, plus Maille exclaiming that "You mean I don't have to have any more superhero stuff in my room?!!"

Elias

Hanging out at Finn's soccer practice

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