Alaska Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/alaska/ Thu, 30 May 2024 10:11:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alaska Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/alaska/ 32 32 184391167 The Herring, the Whale and the Mining ExecutiveShannon Kelly Donahue https://writersrebel.com/herring-whale-mining-exec/ Thu, 30 May 2024 09:20:01 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=6013   The herring came in on Tuesday, pulsing into Mud Bay with the tide, heralded by flocks of gulls and roaring sea lions. The run occurs in a flash, like their iridescent bodies catching sunlight as the school shifts in unison to evade a predator. Herring run when the water temperature is just right. Females [...]

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]]> 6013 UTQIAGVIK : WHALE SNOWDoreen Cunningham https://writersrebel.com/utqiagvik-whale-snow/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:31:09 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5146 Latitude: 71° 17′ 26″ N Longitude: 156° 47′ 19″ W   Big fat flakes of snow drifted past the kitchen window. I watched them fall, while stirring honey into my oatmeal. ‘Whale snow.’ Julia sighed. ‘That’s the kind of snow you get when whales are around. They’re out there. Just we can’t get to them.’ [...]

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