DAY THREE
| You wanna see animals? I got your animals. This is the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. |
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| A muskox. |
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| This brown bear was on his way to a dip in the water. |
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![]() It's a lot of land for the animals. |
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| Those look like moose. |
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| So do they for that matter. Not sure if they are or not. |
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| They had a good number of bison. |
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![]() Can't say for sure, but it may have been low tide at this end of Turnagain Arm. |
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| Turnagain Arm has one of the world's largest tides. It rises more than 35 feet. |
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| Coming soon to a theatre near you, the latest action spy film, Danger Bison. |
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| I think most of us look like this moose when we get up in the morning. |
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| From the studio that brought you Danger Bison, it is an exciting sequel, Danger Moose. |
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| The final entry in the series, Danger Coyote. |
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| And the most dangerous animals of them all, human children! |
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| A porcupine in a little house. |
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| Done with the animals, we head to Whittier. |
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| To get to Whittier, you have to go through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel under Maynard Mountain. It is a single lane with railroad track in the middle and is 2 1/2 miles long. |
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| Almost the entire population of Whittier lives in this building, the Begich Towers Condominium. |
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| Nearby is the abandoned Buckner Building, which was a military facility. |
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| Alaska fun fact: In Alaska, it is illegal to wake a hibernating bear. |
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| ***STOLEN PHOTO ALERT*** Here's the whole crew, with me in the middle, squinting with no glasses. I think this was with Madi's camera. |
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| Whittier is a small cruise port as well where passengers can go on excursions. |
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| More boats. |
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| This is an actual Avis location. I am not sure if that is the lone rental car. |
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| Waiting fifteen minutes to go back through the tunnel. |
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| On our way to Whittier, we saw the aftermath of an unfortunate meeting between a car and a moose. The car suffered quite a lot of front end and windscreen damage. On the way back, we see that the moose fared even worse. |
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