The island has many cliff faces, excellent bird rookeries, although we were too late for many birds this year.
Shannon, Queen of Saint Paul
The coastlines are just so breathtakingly beautiful here -
they reminded me of pictures that I saw of New Zealand's coast
Old weathere rocks along the ridgeline of Saint Paul
Fox prints in the volcanic beach sand
Reindeer hoof prints along the cliff top
The beaches are beautiful too
And, like everywhere else I've been in Alaska,
We arrive in time to still catch all the wildflowers
I don't know for sure, but I made some identification guesses based on what locals told me and from what I recognized from other places...correct me if I'm wrong - PLEASE
Wooly Lousewart
No clue - but these were tiny, less than a half inch across
Saint Paul's beautiful Russian Orthodox Church. The bells were beautiful hear, and you could hear them all over the island.
Aargh! A dandelion, even here! And yes, I picked it.
An alder growing along the ground, almost five feet long! The branches and trunk picked up completely off the ground, so it was a true dwarf tree growing horizontally rather than vertically to escape the nasty winter winds.
Yarrow
Tundra Lupine
Arctic Poppy
No clue - it looks like alien pods though
Another Tundra Lupine
A beach plant with tiny electric blue flowers
Me in the middle of an old lava flow
The coolest flower I saw on Saint Paul - it's stem reminded me of an onion...but no clue
Last land until Russia!
Floating fish processors off the coast
The Saint Paul version of a hotel - we rented a duplex
Sunset on the Western coast of the Island -
Note the silouhettes of the two seals (to the right) watching us
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