Friday, September 4, 2009

Arctic Alaska Day 1


A little herd of musk oxen.


A native villager's summer camp site.

Moon over Kotzebue.

We made it in to Kotzebue, AK on Friday evening and immediately got to go on a trip to an even smaller native village—Kivalina. The whole village, airstrip, trash dump and cemetery are located on a sand spit, so the landing was quite an adventure. After dropping off the charter client, we did a little big game spotting. Two grizzlies (one stood up on it's haunches!), several herd of musk oxen with babies and a flock of swans later, we headed back for a late Friday night supper of haystacks.

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