Alaska Sunday IX

Deadhorse

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I have been under the weather today, so the post will be brief. Here are just a few photos for your viewing pleasure. Your regular tour guides, Troy and Martha, will be back next week for a better episode.

For a previous post on Deadhorse and some interesting fact about the “town” see the previous story VII here.

Doug Taron should appreciate this, I finally got a butterfly in the net for a close look and ID. It was windy and they were hard to catch.

Troy Nets a Butterfly

Driving into Deadhorse, I couldn’t find the local car wash. One interesting fact about the 4Runner: The Navigation system quit working at about 70 degrees North. It lost sight of the satellites. My Magnetic compass worked OK after I reset it by 25 degrees. If you hike across the tundra or in the Arctic NWR, don't forget to reset your compass. I also had a hard time telling direction by the Sun, since it doesn't set.

The 4Runner needs a Bath

I cleaned off the dirt covering "Texas" on my plates.
Workers kept asking "You drive up here from Texas?"
The reply, "Yep, shore did pardner!"
They kept telling me good things to see,
such as the bear below.

I just realized, or I can’t find any photos of the inside of our accommodations. I am looking for a missing DVD! I may have to go back and re-photograph all of this. Martha says that would be OK, she misses Alaska.

Home for 4 Nights (days) – Whatever
The Sun, She don’t set.

One of the birds we wanted to see on their breeding grounds was the Snow Bunting.

He sang day and night
Yes, I went out and checked about 2:30 in the AM

I got Martha’s photograph in the Arctic Ocean. It was a balmy 60 degrees that day and the water temperature was up to 34 degrees (Fahrenheit that is).

Martha is coming out
Her feet and hand color match the shirt.

We saw a Brown bear cool off in the water, and then go dig a hole in the sand to find a cool place to sleep for a while. That's probably the Phillip Smith Mountains of the Brooks Range in the background.

A cool bed

Yes, that's as close as I got.
They can run faster than me on open ground.

Check the side bar for previous, and better, episodes and photographs. This adventure will continue next week, "through landslides and flash floods, back to Coldfoot".

Alaska Sunday is a collection of photographic remembrances of our driving trip from Texas to Alaska.
18,000 miles, 16 weeks, 16 western states including Alaska and four Canadian Provinces.
No chronological order, just anything of interest that got in front of our cameras.

Photos by Troy and Martha

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