Yesterday after work I went for a drive over to a waterfall that I have been to before. With all the snow melt, this waterfall was really moving. The high water made it interesting trying to hike up the side of it, which is really steep, and the rocks are really slippery. It was a great afternoon!
Saturday I spent the day taking a shuttle bus into Denali National Park. What a ride that was, I saw all kinds of wildlife. The bus driver spotted this Lynx crossing the road and it only stuck around for a few seconds and then vanished in to the woods. Once I got a good ways into the park I got off the bus and did some hiking, that was when I found this Great Horned Owl nest with a couple of owlets. After I snapped some photos of them, I started hiking down the road waiting to get on the next shuttle bus that came by. Well when all the shuttle buses are full there is only one thing that you can do, and that is keep on walking and that is just what I did, hiked 10 miles out of the park. Most of the way I followed some bear tracks, heading in the same direction that I needed to go. Needless to say I was on the lookout for the bears that made these prints, but they were never seen. It was a great day, and I have so many photos to go through.
After work today, I headed down to Silver Lake state park to check out the Little Sable Lighthouse. It is just another one of many lighthouses along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
I took a drive today up to Sleepy Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The weather was really cold and windy, but it made for some big waves on Lake Michigan. There were also many different species of waterfowl on some of the near by lakes. 
OK so I didn't have much time after work to find a new place to take some photos, and it looked like it was going to be clear for sunset. So I went back down the street to the Ludington Lighthouse. One is before sunset and the other is after.
After dinner, I made it back out to Ludington beach and walked out to the lighthouse, Which was pretty cool to see up close. After that I walked over to the beach to watch the sunset. There were a lot of seagulls and terns flying around, which were a lot of fun to shoot.
Today, I got up to Ludington MI for the start of two weeks of work. After dinner I made a quick trip over to the Lighthouse for a few quick shots. Hopefully tomorrow I can make it over in time to catch the sunset.
Well the weather finally broke for Sunday and it was a beautiful sunrise at the top of Clingmans Dome. After that I could not resist going and looking for some more salamanders, and you can not go around a corner without seeing a waterfall. It was a great trip and I can not wait to go back and spend more time there.
Well the work is done and now it's time to play, and I could not have picked a better place then the Smokies! It was a wet day, but I still had a great time. The rivers are just 
Today after work we had some time so we headed over to the Georgia Aquarium, which is one of the largest aquariums in the world. It was a lot of fun walking through, looking at all the sea life.
