Still clip from video of humpback breaching, September 18,
2009
In 2007 I began taking ocassional videos with my
digital camera, mostly of wildlife and significant events at the
homestead. These have mostly been very casual with an eye to
capturing the moment and little thought to sharing them with anyone, so
I make no claims as to their quality. Where my trip reports are
web pages I've already imbedded the relevant videos, but I'm not able
to add them to the pdfs I posted prior to 2009. All Snettisham or
Southeast Alaska advenure videos worth viewing from that time period
are below by
category (Whales, Bears and
Other Wildlife, Snettisham Homestead, and
Other Adventures). My friend
Kellee Grubb is responsible for a number of
the general homestead videos (used with her permission).
Whales
Humpback
whale breaching in Stephen's Passage, 2009.
Humpback
whales fluking in the Stephen's Passage group-up, 2007.
Scenic view
of two humpback whales in the Stephen's Passage group-up, 2007.
Four humpback
whales fluking in the Stephen's Passage group-up, 2007 (the calf
doesn't
fluke).
Four humpback
whales (including a calf) in the Stephen's Passage group-up, 2007.
Group of
playful transient orcas in Port Snettisham, 2007.
Group of
playful transient orcas in Port Snettisham, 2007.
Herd of
bubble net lunge feeders approaching a whale watching boat during a
breathing cycle, 2007.
Bubble net
lunge feeding humpback whales feeding in Lynn Canal, 2009.
Bubble net
lunge feeding humpback whales in Lynn Canal during a breathing cycle,
2009.
The Point
Adolphus humpback whale herd, 2009.
Resident
orcas in Favorite Channel, 2009.
Resident
orcas (probably AF pod) with a calf in Stephen's Passage, 2009.
Bears and Other
Wildlife
Young female
brown bear walking along a beach at high tide, 2007.
Young female
brown bear swimming along a beach at high tide, 2007.
Mother brown
bear and three cubs at Sweetheart Creek (after forcing us to cross the
creek with our catch), 2007.
Brown bear
and kayakers, 2007.
Mother brown
bear fishing in Sweetheart Creek, 2009.
Mother brown
bear carrying a freshly caught salmon up a cliff at Sweetheart Creek,
2009.
Mother brown
bear and three cubs at Sweetheart Creek, 2009.
Male rufous
hummingbird apparenly holding a female to the ground, 2009.
Fledgling
rufous hummingbirds, 2009.
Fledgling
rufous hummingbirds, 2009.
Snettisham Homestead
Cottonwood
and Mink Cabins (Cabins 1 and 2) and the great fallen tree behind them
(video by Kellee Purdy), 2009.
The top of
the drinking water system (video by Kellee Purdy), 2009.
View from the
porch of Cottonwood cabin looking downriver (video by Kellee Purdy),
2009.
View from
under the roots of a Sitka spruce tree to the top at the homestead
(video by Kellee
Purdy), 2009.
360 view from
the homestead at the edge of the
beach during a moderate low tide (video by Kelle Purdy), 2009.
Construction
of the bear proof box to house the gray water treatment system
(starring Kathy
Maas), 2008.
Other Adventures
Chris pulling in a net full of pink salmon at Sweetheart Creek, 2009.
The upper falls at Sweetheart Creek with jumping pink salmon, 2009.
Ice berg at the entrance to Snettisham (video by Kellee Purdy), 2009.
Upriver from Whiting Point (video by Kellee Purdy), 2009.
Kellee floating down the Whiting River above the homestead, 2009.
Floating down the Whiting River above the homestead (video by Kellee
Purdy), 2009.
Floating off a beach near Sunshine Cove on July 6, 2009.
Beaching it on the backside of Douglas on July 7, 2009 (video by Kellee
Purdy).
