In Remembrance Of D-Day

Sunset at a very special beach. Erected in the surf at the invasion beach designated Omaha, this memorial is dedicated to the allied soldiers who stormed the beaches on June 6th, 1944 in Normandy France. Still today it remains the single largest seaborne assault ever, involving 156,000 soldiers being put ashore that day along with an armada of countless sailors at sea and airmen in the skies over the English Channel.

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Today’s Image “A Ship In Port”

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Walking down a street in Ketchikan, Alaska recently it became very obvious just how big the new cruise ships have become. In some smaller ports of call these ships literally cover the entire waterfront, but in seasonal ports dependent on tourism they offer a huge boost to the economy.

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A Humpback Breaches Near Juneau

We’ve spent a lot of time at sea and whales always attract attention. Having seen and photographed a number of whale flukes as they surface, with that iconic view of the tail up out of the water and sliding back under. Spent hours traveling with a large pod of humpbacks seeing mostly backs at the surface and the erupting mists from multiple blows but we’ve never seen a breaching whale erupt almost fully out of the water like in the the above image. Sadly that remains the case – this photo is of the Whale Project in Juneau Alaska.

Tahku – The Whale Project, Juneau—a non-profit was created to develop this park—and the City of Juneau funded the sculpture and accompanying fountain. The project took ten years. Nature expert and sculptor R.T. “Skip” Wallen created “Tahku,”—a six-and-a-half ton, 25-foot tall breaching humpback whale statue imbedded in a fountain.

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Waterfront Guayaquil, Ecuador

The waterfront in Guayaquil on the west bank of the Guayas River offers a fantastic river walk park known as Malecón 2000. It stretches for over five mile and includes an amusement area featuring La Perla a giant ferris wheel, a botanical garden and a great riverside walk.

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Patsy Ann of Juneau, Alaska

Patsy Ann

The dog that belonged to a city…

Sitting on the boardwalk on Juneau’s waterfront stands a statue of a dog that became a legend in Alaska and probably a number of other states as well. The statue is of Patsy Ann, an English Bull Terrier, born in Portland, Oregon on October 12, 1929 who came to Juneau, Alaska shortly afterwords. She died on March 30, 1942.

Patsy Ann was adopted by the people of Juneau shortly after her arrival as she made the rounds of local businesses. She had a lot of friends, most of them fed her, including a daily candy bar from one shop. Patsy Ann was also a regular at local bars, restaurants and hotels.

The remarkable thing about Patsy Ann was she was deaf from birth, but somehow heard the whistles of ships approaching Juneau long before they came up the channel. When she headed for a wharf everyone new that was where the ship would dock. She was never known to be wrong and on one occasion, when a crowd gathered at the wrong dock, Patsy Ann looked at the crowd and then turned and trotted to the correct dock.

Because of her uncanny sense about the arrival of ships to Juneau and her faithful welcome at the wharf, Juneau Mayor Goldstein officially named Patsy Ann “The Official Greeter of Juneau, Alaska” in 1934.

Old Juneau’s Ambassador was the most famous canine west of the Mississippi, and more photographed than Rin Tin Tin.

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Infinity Pool In Paradise

There are times when a photograph just screams “take me”. This one is an example. While visiting with friends in Curacao we went to a resort for lunch and this infinity pool was right at the waters edge. Who could resist?

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