Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

Twelve Mile Circle

  • Glacier Bay Scenery

    Hoonah–Angoon Census Area Census Area of the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, USA (August 1995) Mt. Fairweather This grand view points down Johns Hopkins Inlet, the home of numerous impressive glaciers. It is framed at back by Mt. Fairweather (map), which is somewhat of a misnomer since the weather can be quite nasty. Mt. Fairweather towers more…

  • South Marble Island

    Glacier Bay: Hoonah–Angoon Census Area Census Area of the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, USA (August 1995) South Marble Island (map) is a small protrusion within the main channel of Glacier Bay as one sails from the Visitors Center at Glacier Bay National Park up towards the major glaciers. It would be unremarkable except that it houses…

  • Grand Pacific & Reid Glaciers

    Glacier Bay:  Hoonah–Angoon Census Area of the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, USA (August 1995) Grand Pacific Glacier The Grand Pacific Glacier heads in the St. Elias Mountains and trends east into British Columbia. From there it flows southeast to the head of the Tarr Inlet along the Alaska – Canada border. The glacier completes its slow-motion…

  • Margerie Glacier

    Glacier Bay: Hoonah–Angoon Census Area Census Area of the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, USA (August 1995) Margerie Glacier (map) is one of the most magnificent and dramatic ice flows into Glacier Bay National Park. It features sheer green and blue walls smudged by black debris carried down from the mountainside. The size is amazing. It is…

  • Midnight Sun

    Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, USA (July 2000) Why would I post this image of a nondescript suburban street lined with generic chain stores that could be anywhere USA? …Because this is Anchorage, Alaska and it’s nearly midnight. I was in Anchorage on business in early July 2000, just a few days after the summer solstice.…

  • Flattop Mountain

    Chugach State Park, Anchorage, AK (July 2010) We didn’t plan to climb Flattop Mountain (map) that beautiful July morning. We had completely different plans, actually. The waiter during breakfast said we should go. The desk clerk at the hotel told us the same thing. The day was too perfect, too perfect!, to waste it on…

  • Counties in Alabama that I have Visited

    There are 67 Counties in Alabama – “The Heart of Dixie“ Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states. I have visited 27 Counties = 40.3% of Counties in Alabama Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank.  Map created using Mob…

  • Ferry Maps of the World

    An Ever-Growing List of Ferries From Around the World 750+ Ferry Routes and Counting Maps currently available include: This page will always be a work in progress. The maps take awhile to research and program, and new ones will be added as I can complete them. My Personal Ferry Travelogues

  • Adventures on Kaua’i

    Kaua’i, Hawaii, USA (October 1997) When my wife and I planned our trip to Australia we figured we might as well hit Hawaii since we’d be all the way out there anyway. On the leg from Los Angeles to Sydney a few days earlier we flew right over Hawaii; a thirty second view of Molokai…

  • Miscellaneous Bayfield Locations

    Apostle Islands & Bayfield Peninsula, Wisconsin (August 2007) Stunningly clear views of the Apostle Islands and the mainland led the way to the Mawikwe Sea Caves. Now on our return trip, passengers jostled railings for viewing space as we sailed away from the northwestern tip of the peninsula towards the Bayfield marina. We completed our…

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