Alaska the Beautiful!

Sandy Beach!

Chris and I always love to go exploring when we get a nice day. On this particular day we were driving home from Church in the early afternoon and we found two gorgeous feathers! One was obviously from an Eagle!

After Chris took pictures of me flapping the feathers on our porch we headed out to
Douglas Island to Sandy Beach.

Waterfalls are all over all of the mountains this time of year, snow melting off. But we won't lose the snow completely.

He is such a handsome scruffy man! My handsome scruffy man!

I love this picture! Just beautiful beach and mountains and deep blues!

Watching the cruise ships come in and out was on my Alaska Bucket List! I love watching them smoothly glide by!

I may have taken a lot of pictures with these wooden poles in the sand, but I think they are so pretty on this landscape!

 

 

These wooden poles go all the way into the water there. It was neat there was quite a long line of them.

Chris and I just kept walking, walking, walking down the beach and things kept getting prettier and prettier.

 Water is so beautiful! This water is super clear!

The clouds setting in right above the green tree tops is just an incredible contrast.

We decided to turn around and head back up the beach, but then Chris disappears in the forest. You can faintly see his white jacket in the greenery.

Chris did discover some cool things!

 I guess we ran into what is called "Treadwell Mine Historic Park".

We came across all kinds of old deserted building like this! Chris loved going into them all and trying to figure out what each building was used for.

The forest is so lush and green everywhere! It is incredible you can hardly see the pond.

Chris just being cute!

The leaves in this forest are huge!

We had such a great time on Sandy Beach.

We ended up following the forest trails all the way back to our car. Then called it a night and drove home.

Three nights later I captured some incredible shots of a stunning sunset just off our porch!

A spring view off our porch just outside our door.

A few hours later I was able to capture this! No words needed!

Alaska the Beautiful. Sometimes it just takes my breath away.