Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp Alaska is huge and most of it is what we would call remote – empty – wild – even unexplored. It is a land of forest, tundra, and rock. Much of it is wet. Lakes and rivers abound. There are fewer thanContinue reading “Alaska, Nome: remote, small, and quite wonderful”
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Alaska – The Forest of the Southeast
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp This is the first of several pages on Alaska. I was just there (May-June 2017) for just over three weeks with a tour group** and then touring/birding with Fran. It was grand – In the Southeast we traveled from Sitka toContinue reading “Alaska – The Forest of the Southeast”
Alaska, Nome – mammals
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp Like most places that Fran and I frequent, Nome has wildlife. Nome was sought out as a destination primarily for its birding, but high on our list was the chance to see, Musk Oxen. I had been to Nome previously andContinue reading “Alaska, Nome – mammals”
Franz Joseph Glacier – New Zealand
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp This is another version of a May 2017 posting – enjoy again. *Greywacke is a solidified clay, an ooze-stone of sorts. It is fine grained, gray, and reasonably homogeneous. It is sedimentary in origin and has been lifted from the TasmanContinue reading “Franz Joseph Glacier – New Zealand”
Milford Sound New Zealand
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp Milford Sound is the best known of New Zealand’s fjords. Relatively easy access through the Murchison Mountains makes for a memorable ride and delivers you to a spectacular fjord that reaches several miles to the Tasman Sea. Milford Sound and DoubtfulContinue reading “Milford Sound New Zealand”
Miranda Shore-birding
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp Miranda is a place not a person. It is a wonderful place to observe waders/shorebirds in their non-breeding moments. The highlight species here is the very odd little shorebird called Wrybill. It certainly does have a bill that has gone awry. TheContinue reading “Miranda Shore-birding”
Doubtful Sound (Fjord) New Zealand
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp There are a dozen or so fjords on the southern half the western side New Zealand’s South Island. Coming from Christchurch you would cross the Southern Alps via Arthur’s Pass and descending to the Tasman Sea which forms the westernContinue reading “Doubtful Sound (Fjord) New Zealand”
The Franz Joseph Glacier, New Zealand
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp The Southern Alps are a bit of a surprise. The country of New Zealand consists of a couple medium sized islands and lots of smaller ones. It has been submerged and lifted by tectonic plates for tens of millions of years.Continue reading “The Franz Joseph Glacier, New Zealand”
Milford Sound, So. Island, New Zealand
Please consider all images as copyrighted – thank you. Contact me for use… DEClapp There are several glacier-formed fjords (Norwegian spelling) along the New Zealand’s South Island’s western side. Few can be reached without great difficulty. Those of you who have a fear of heights or twisting roads may think that none of them canContinue reading “Milford Sound, So. Island, New Zealand”
On The Road With DEC 