I cheated on this picture by taking it through the glass at the Seward Aquarium. It would be very difficult to get this close to a Horned Puffin in the wild!
This plant lives up to its descriptive species name! It was very common on the Kenai Peninsula. It made hiking in the woods quite a challenge, along with the nettles and the Cow Parsnip, it has nasty thorns. We hiked in long pants despite the mid-80 to 90 degree "heat wave" in the area! The huge leaves were easy to spot, so we could avoid it fairly easily.
It was a bit unnerving to see Tsunami evacuation signs along the main street of Seward. A tsunami from the 1964 earthquake devastated homes and businesses in Seward.
