Seward, Alaska is one of my favorite places .... I went there today and here are some pictures I took.

Today I went to Homer, Alaska..... it was cloudy, but still beautiful.

"Wooo, Caribou!!".... my sister says that one of these days when she drives the Alaskan Highway she is going to roll down her window and yell "Wooo, Caribou" when she sees one of the animals. Well, I have driven the Alaskan Highway more times than I want to count, and I have seen plenty of them. Here are some pictures. To learn more about this animal, "Wooo, Caribou!!".... that is what my sister says that one of those days when she drives the Alaskan Highway she is going to roll down her window and yell "Wooo, Caribou" when she sees one of the animals. Well, I have driven the Alaskan Highway more times than I want to count, and I have seen plenty of them. Here are some pictures. To learn more about this animal, click here.

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I love the musk ox- they kind of remind me of the wooly mammoth which is one of my favorite animals, albeit extinct animals... Anyway, musk oxen are actually an ancient species of arctic mammal and aside from Alaska, are also found in remote areas of the far north, including Greenland, Canada, and Siberia.

Musk oxen, along with the wooly mammoth, saber-toothed cat, and giant ground sloth wandered into North America across the Bering Land Bridge. Fossil records have been found as far south as Ohio during the last Ice Age. While the musk ox died off in Alaska by the late 1800's they were reintroduced from wild herds in eatern Greenland in the 1930's and have made an astonishing comeback. Despite their name, musk oxen are not oxen, and even though they may resemble bison, musk ox are more closely related to goats and sheep. The musk oxen diet includes a wide variety of foods such as lichens, grasses, and leaves. Learn more at www.muskoxfarm.org.

Did you know that Alaska had an orchestra long before it was actually a state? Yes, that's right! Learn more about the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra at http://www.anchoragesymphony.org/

"Grow More Moose!!" - that is the main priority of the Alaska Moose Federation. Click here to learn more about moose, the AMF, their mission, and to see some great pictures of this magnificent animal!

Yes, there really is a North Pole in Alaska... a tiny town near Fairbanks goes by that name and comes equipped with a Santa House. Click here to get more info on the town, a photo gallery, and more interesting facts!