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Day 218: Juneau, part 3

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Here is our first glimpse of Mendenhall Glacier. The Dailylife Wife walks down to the shore. Juneau is a lush place… Off to the right about a mile is a BIG waterfall.  Those little spots? …People… There are spotting scopes to view the glacier through in the Visitor’s Center. The View. A nice view of […]

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Day 217: Juneau, part 2

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Next we went to the Glacier Botanical Gardens.  This was a landslide a guy named Steve recreated into a Botanical Garden to reclaim the area and prevent another slide! Besides being very lush and colorful (and wet…), Steve had another great idea!  He takes trees, with roots still attached, and plants them in the ground […]

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