Two years ago we saw a large bull moose in Earthquake Park, so we went back moose hunting. We had about given up seeing one, when a man told Carol that there was one just down the road. We were elated to see a mother with a calf. While we were watching, the mother crossed the road; and shortly thereafter the calf followed her. Some of our pictures are better of each of them separately, but this is our best of both of them together. Earthquake Park is a memorial to the 1964 earthquake that devastated Anchorage. Some streets dropped as much as 15 feet.
The airport is nearby. One section, Lake Hood, is devoted to seaplanes. The above movie is actually a sequence of still pictures that John took as a seaplane took off. Lake Hood is the world's busiest seaplane base with as many as 800 takeoffs and landings per day during the summer. There are 781 seaplanes based here. Alaska has several times more private aircraft than any other state.
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