
Expedition
Log

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August 5, 2001
Souvenir Album:
Surprise Bay, Kenai
Fjords National Park
Images (click images for a
larger view)
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View of
Surprise Bay from the Clipper Odyssey.
(Photo by National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Zodiac
leaving Clipper Odyssey for Surprise Bay,
Kenai Fjords National Park. (Photo by National
Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Approaching
Surprise Bay from the Zodiacs. (Photo by National
Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Zodiac
landing at Surprise Bay. (Photo by National Ocean
Service, NOAA).
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Carmen
Fields, naturalist, lectures about jellyfish in the
bay. Lion's mane jellies had become stranded and
died in the exposed intertidal. (Photo by National
Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Carmen Fields
informs the Young Explorers Team about the dangers
of eating some Alaskan shellfish due to Paralytic
Shellfish Poisoning. (Photo by National Ocean
Service, NOAA).
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Dead spruce
trees were killed by saltwater intrusion after the
land dropped during the 1964 earthquake. (Photo by
National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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A waterfall
fed by snowmelt cascades down the mountainside into
the spruce forest we hiked through in Surprise Bay.
(Photo by National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Naturalist
Carmen Fields points out Devil's Club, a
pungent-smelling, wide-leafed plant with spiny
stalks that has medicinal value as Alaska's only
ginseng. (Photo by National Ocean Service,
NOAA).
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Abandoned
Goldminers' camp at the Sunny Fox claim site at
Surprise Bay. (Photo by National Ocean Service,
NOAA).
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Entrance to
gold mine shaft. (Photo by National Ocean Service,
NOAA).
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View of Kenai
Fjord National Park. (Photo by National Ocean
Service, NOAA).
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Clipper
Odyssey from Zodiac. (Photo by National Ocean
Service, NOAA).
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