Lake Hood is the busiest float plane airport in the world. It is adjacent to the Anchorage International Airport. A lot of people fly in to the main airport, then catch a float plane to other areas in Alaska only accessible by float plane. There are 500 float planes and 500 other small planes (like the one we took) that fly out of this area.
Above, these small dots on the sand were spotted by our pilot. He circles down to show us these seals.
I told our pilot he had a real crappy job, flying over this beautiful part of the state of Alaska every day. He laughed.
We flew from Anchorage across Cook Inlet to Lake Clark National Park (directly West of the Kenai Peninsula). The large ice at the bottom of this glacier are several stories high.
After landing on the beach at Clark Lake, we were loaded onto a ATV bus and taken to the mouth of the lake. We saw at least 20 bear from a distant fishing for salmon. We were lucky to catch this one on the beach as we headed back to the lodge to have lunch.
These planes have extra large tires for landing on the beach. Dan, our pilot, was communicating with the other pilot deciding who would take the high side of the beach and who would take the low side. Glad traffic controlling works out there in the wilderness.
Just one last look at Lake Clark National Park before we head back to Anchorage.
Anchorage from our plane.
Picture of Lake Hood where the float planes take off and land with Anchorage National Airport in the distance. Out runway was in the foreground.
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