Jan. 19, 2017
Alaska's beauty, as far as an earth bound person can see it, is above the water . Gorgeous snow covered peaks only four or five thousand feet above sea level. Its the Rockies meets the ocean. You can go kayaking in the summer and see this beautiful glassy water, surrounded by green grass and pine covered lowlands with low peaks covered with snow higher up. The landscape is unimaginably beautiful. I have it labelled in my mind the most beautiful place I've been. Its a close race with these south pacific islands. The Marshall islands, and I've only been able to see the tiniest portion of it, have a different approach to beauty than Alaska. Most of what I've experienced, is barely above sea level. Many of the islands are a bit barren, most covered in coconut trees, a few a bit less vegetative.
The empty islands here give a cross between those iconic "comic" images that cartoons in the States depict with a few palm trees and one or two people having issues, and the screen saver that half of America has on its computer. That's the competition, the above ground Alaska, beats the above ground Marshall islands. The equalizer comes with the underwater beauty out here.
