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Sommer Vacation 2012

Visit by Rita, Rabea, Bernd and Angelika with us. We spent a few days in Seattle before we went on our cruise on the Star Princess to Alaska.

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Alaska (1315) Antelope Island (33) Aquarium (203) Bald Eagle (39) Bear Lake (23) Bison (18) Black Bear (1) Brook (3) Canada (255) Chris (6) Cruise (1634) Erica (30) Humpback Whale (77) Idaho (23) Juneau (268) Ketchikan (289) Rabea (7) Rita (14) Ruben (1) Salt Lake City (21) Seattle (368) Silver Lake (22) Skagway (356) Smart (2) Totem Bight State Historic Park (87) Tracy Arm (170) Utah (95) Victoria (206)

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What is Totem Bight? A bight is a bend in the shoreline that forms a shallow bay. It looks as if a giant creature took a bite out of it. Natives favored bights for village sites since they are often protected from fierce weather and have sandy beaches good for landing canoes. Erupting and Eroding This bight is sitting on a vast marine terrace that formed when the sea level rose 6,000 years ago. Melting glaciers caused this rise and then waves eroded the base of the mountains to form the terrace. The mountains formed long before the glaciers melted, from volcanic eruptions and folding in the earth's surface. Totem Bight was formerly called Mud Bight. It got its new name after the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) project created the totem park in the 1930s and 40s.
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