Shoreline at Tin City, 5 miles SE of Cape Prince of Wales.

An old stamp mill, a reminder of the source of the name of this area - Tin City.

Remains of old mining and milling equipment at Tin City.

An old wire spool left in the Tin City area.

Strange surface of ice at Tin City area - reminiscent of dessicated lake bed.

Strange surface of ice at Tin City area - reminiscent of dessicated lake bed.

Below the melting ice surface lie rounded boulders, attesting to the violence of Bering Sea surf near Tin City and Cape Prince of Wales.

Near Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of North America.

A view of Dutch Harbor.

Crew members on Mount Ballyhoo; climbing Ballyhoo is a tradition in the Coast Survey.

A view of Unalaska.

A view of the harbor at Unalaska, probably on the 4th of July with the ships dressed.

Mount Vsevidof

A view of Blueberry Bay on the south coast of Unalaska Island.

A cobble beach on Umnak Island.

Mount Vsevidof,

Entering the Ballard Locks on the way to Alaska from Lake Union.

The Pioneers Home in Sitka.

The gold mine at Juneau.

The gold mine at Juneau.

Inside Lituya Bay

Lituya Bay entrance.

Lituya Bay entrance.

Identified as Bradly (Brady?) Glacier on the Gulf of Alaska.

Inside Lituya Bay with Cenotaph Island in the center.

Glaciers and mountains seen from the Gulf of Alaska.

The settlement at Elfin Cove, just inside Cape Spencer.

A cabin in the forest - the two owners had disappeared.

Looking over a sand and boulder beach to Mount Fairweather enveloped in rain clouds.

Port Althorp Cannery

San Simeon Cove

San Simeon Cove

San Simeon Cove

San Simeon Cove

Simons Landing intertidal.

Mussel bed with field gear at the ready at Simons Landing.

A carpet of brilliantly colored hydrocorals (Allopora sp.) grow next to lighter pink encrusting coralline algae in a surge channel on Tatoosh Island.

Surf breaking against exposed rocks. Looking NE across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Vancouver Island. Note house of outbound ship silhouetted against mountains in left center of image.

Marine ecologists Courtney Stepien and Anne Paine head down to census seaweed at low tide on Tatoosh Island.

Stellar sea lions sun themselves at dawn at Hedophyllum Cove.

The surfgrass in a cove near Strawberry Island is a favorite napping spot for harbor seal pups.

Watching the tide roll away.

New earth: lava enters the Pacific Ocean on Hawaii's Big Island, east of Kalapana.

Spouting Horn blow hole at sunset.

"Stairway to Heaven": Scuba diving and doing a fish/invertebrate count at the bottom of the natural well at Silver Glen Spring in Ocala National Forest.

Ice at the front of a tidewater glacier.

A tidewater glacier with sea otters on the ice for scale!

Sunset at Point Iroquois, Lake Superior. Well-rounded boulders comprising the beach attest to the potential violence of Lake Superior wave action during winter and equinoctial storms.

The Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis, MN.

Edgartown Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard