The first image is downtown Anchorage (that is a pond, not Lake Hood). Anchorage is around 300,000, or about half of Milwaukee, but with NO surrounding suburbs. It's a strange city; there is no old town, as it is less than 100 years old, and much of it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1964. There are a few scattered tall buildings downtown, and within blocks you run into these one room cottages (I need to get a pic of one). It's a very odd place, though everyone is friendly.
The last three are of Lake Hood, which the Museum is adjacent to (in the top right image, the large white building on the right is the outdoor hanger). It is the busiest float plane airport in the world and you can watch planes land or take off every few minutes. There was a crash the week before I was here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwlodvWh7w "Ruined a perfectly good airplane" is the general consensus of those who mention it.
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