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  • 1northcoin
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    WHEN THE OCEAN WATERS OFF Anchorage Alaska TURN TO ICE

    On rare occasions sub zero temperatures are accompanied by chunks of broken ice completely filling the Cook Inlet ocean waters off Anchorage Alaska. These chunks of ice are moved by the tides at 3-5 miles per hour although at slack tide, as pictured below, it appears the ocean is frozen solid. (Slack tide is that brief period of time between incoming and outgoing tides when the waters are all but still.)

    In my below linked video the ice filled waters appear as a sheet of diamonds reflecting the setting sun’s light while majestic Mount McKinley/Denali looms upward over the horizon.

    The camera then pans to neighboring sister Mountain Foraker as Anchorage’s Small Boat Harbor comes into view with an ice-blocked tug seen moored there.

    Then the Susitna Valley’s Sleeping Lady (Mt Susitna) is seen fronted by the ice filled waters.

    Finally the Volcano mountains of the Alaska Range appear to include 80 mile distant Mount Spurr.

    (On multiple occasions in the last century beginning in 1953 Mount Spurr has erupted to cover Anchorage with volcanic ash )

    Link to Panoramic Video of Cook Inlet's Iced Over Ocean Waters Reflecting Like a Sheet of Diamonds:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTayW6quFTg

    Here are added video views of the iced over inlet set to music:

    TRAVELING ALONG ICE FILLED OCEAN WATERS UNTIL ALASKA'S Mount McKinley/DENALI IS REACHED

    Link to Video Panning from the Alaska Range to Mount McKinley as set to music:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6D8oGBEWCIQ

    AS IF "IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL" [As sung by Sarah McLachlan] A HIGH FLYING USAF FIGHTER JET DESCENDS DOWNWARD TOWARD THE Alaska Range AND ICED OCEAN BELOW:

    Link to Video of Fighter Jet with its Vapor Trail Descending toward iced-over appearing ocean below:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vVoYckWdzkU

    Concurrently taken photos of the Rare "Iced-Over" ocean waters of Anchorage Alaska's Cook Inlet with accompanying views of the Alaska Range, Mount Susitna, and the Anchorage Port:

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    EVERYBODY LOVES PANDAS, BUT BEFORE THERE WERE LIVE PANDAS TO BE VIEWED IN AMERICA .....

    America's love for Pandas was heralded by a diorama at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History thanks to the 1929 expedition efforts of President Teddy Roosevelt's sons Theodore and Kermit. As evident in my contemporary photo that diorama can still be seen today.

    The Roosevelt Expedition and Diorama inspired a subsequent expedition by others in 1936 to return to China to bring back the first live Panda to come to America which found a home in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Fittingly that Panda, Su Lin, has its final resting place also at the Chicago Field Museum in the shared Hall of Asian Mammals.

    Seen here at the Beijing Zoo in China this Panda has learned how to mimic his standing visitors by standing up as well.

    Once in position standing erect, the Panda appears to be thoughtfully pondering the accomplishment and then turns and glances at us watching visitors.

    Link to the Standing Up Pondering Panda:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwm0Ycsyvc

    Related photos including my contemporary photo of the Panda Diorama at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History:

    Cute Pandas :)

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    Here is an older panda that I bought years ago… I only have a few of these… Lately I’ve been doing the Mexican Libertad’s…

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    This weekend NBC aired the 2018 movie "Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom." As I watched it and saw characters Claire, Franklin and Owen getting washed ashore, after plummeting off of a cliff in their bubble shaped gyrosphere, I thought to myself, "that secluded beach location sure looks familiar."

    After pulling up some of my past photos, I was able to confirm that indeed it was the same location featured in both the films "From Here to Eternity" and "Pirates of the Caribbbean: On Stranger Tides" - a location I had climbed down a cliff to reach and and then film and photograph in August of 2022.

    It is coming up on seven decades since the 1953 movie "From Here to Eternity" with its iconic embrace in the sand and surf between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr was filmed on Oahu's Halona Beach. Even so, the beach remains better known today as 'Eternity Beach."

    As referenced above, in 2010 this small cliff surrounded beach located next to the Halona "Lookout" Point "Blowhole" natural attraction, and only accessible by climbing down a cliff, was the movie set for the Mermaid infested Whitecap Bay Scene in the Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz film, "Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides."

    I was on Oahu during the filming of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" Mermaid scene at Halona Cove and the Kalaniana'ole Highway above the cliff overlooking the Cove was closed off and large water trucks positioned above the Cove were there supplying the rain for the scene as seen in the last of the photos below. (The Halona Cove can be reached by going to Halona Lookout and then climbing down the rocky cliffs to the secluded hidden beach below.)

    Here is the video I filmed at Halona Cove, the scene location for all three films:

    Link to the Waves Crashing Upon the Rocks and "From Here to Eternity Beach" at Halona Cove:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRzgxoVRIs

    Concurrently taken photos of Halona Cove along with the Cove as a film set for the three movies:

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    SURREAL DAYLIGHT MOON LOOMS HIGH ABOVE TODAY'S SPECTACULAR SUNSET SKY

    With temperatures hovering at 20 degrees F, sunset approaches and the full winter moon appears high in the early evening Alaska sky.

    Watch as the camera zooms in on the lighted moon and pans to capture the beauty of the sunset illuminated setting below .

    Link to Video of Daylight Moon Looming High in Sky:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq-oDRVOP-o

    Link to added video of Daylight Moon with Airplane Above as set to an excited musical score:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HEupbQafwR4

    Concurrently taken photos from today:

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    YESTERDAY'S "WORKING" ON THE RAILROAD IN A SCENIC SETTING

    Yesterday morning at least eight self-propelled maintenance railroad vehicles formed a convoy moving along the tracks as I pulled into my parking space that overlooks the railroad tracks. It appeared that they were working in unison to keep the rails straight to counter the forces of extreme winter weather changes that likely caused shifting of the rails.

    Here are videos I took of several of them.

    Watch each of four self-propelled railroad cars together operate to maintain straight rails on Alaska Railroad track susceptible to being bent by the extreme winter weather conditions.

    Link to Video of four of the self-propelled Maintenance Railroad Vehicles:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrmGWhGF5yg

    This self-propelled Alaska Railroad Track Maintenance Car is just one of a convoy that follow each other keeping straight the rails of the tracks that are prone to shift and heave under the extreme winter temperatures.

    Watch to the end and share the close-up view of majestic Mount Susitna as it is reflected in the ocean waters of Cook Inlet that border the Alaska Railroad tracks as seen from Anchorage Alaska.

    Link to Video of one of the Maintenance Vehicles at work:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flk5kofvtCk

    Link to video of another of the Maintenance Vehicles at work:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dGSrKRsyZy4

    Added Videos capturing the scenic background scenery and setting:

    Captured on this crisp February morning from Anchorage Alaska, both 30 mile distant Mount Susitna a/k/a Sleeping Lady and the volcanoes of the 80 mile distant Alaska Range are seen together across the icy waters of Cook Inlet.

    Watch to the end to see zoomed in views of the Alaska Range’s distant volcano Mount Spurr and then Mount Susitna.

    Link to Video capturing the icy waters of Cook Inlet and looming mountains beyond:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7JjaKP970

    Link to Video capturing the Inlet and Mountain Views accompanied by a dramatic score:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6LF6qs-9Ays

    Link to Video of High Flying Fighter Jets over Mount Susitna with musical accompaniment:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IbKyYlXg_TU

    Surrounding the Anchorage Alaska Port on the shores of Cook Inlet are a military air base and railroad yards.

    Watch and listen to the bustling activity at this location as a USAF C-17 Cargo Transport Plane comes in for a landing and an Alaska Railroad Cargo Train departs

    Adding drama to the scene are the icy waters of Cook Inlet and a looming Mount Susitna some 30 miles distant across from the Port.

    Link to Video of the expanded setting with C-17 Transport Landing as Freight Train Departs:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNY0IRevQts

    Concurrently taken Photos:

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    Links to Videos of the Alaska Railroad Train from Today:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8P2p2NFR0s

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OxbBdmYizEE

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SCNd7Yha5XE

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    From earlier this evening:

    As the sunset lit sky glows over the Alaska Range the camera then pans past Mount Susitna before rejoining the Alaska Range’s most heralded mountains Foraker and Mount McKinley/ Denali as seen glowing on the horizon.

    Just then a helicopter emerges from Directly over McKinley and comes directly toward us.

    Link to Video of Helicopter appearing just as camera's view reaches Mount McKinley f/k/a Denali:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyZSXVrThI

    Concurrent sunset views as photographed earlier this evening:

    Video view as the sun turning fire red as it continued to set over the Alaska Range and Cook Inlet's waters with high flying jet overhead:

    Link to Video taken as the sun set accompanied by musical score:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FA1YZEQdqhU

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