Alaska to anywhere by road can be tricky to impossible. Are you (a) heading down to the lower 48 for good, or will you (b) be schlepping the gear down, and then back again?

If your answer is (a), then I suggest a bonded courier service is probably your best option. Particularly as (depending upon whereabouts in Alaska you live) your standard parcel services are probably restricted to air or sea freight.

If your answer is (b), then I suggest challenging yourself with these two questions:
1. Do I really need to take everything?
2. If not, should I rent or buy some/most items I will need, where I will use them?

Over the last 3 decades, I’ve found myself attending sports events and multiple other commissions on at least 2 continents, yearly. Whether it be top end World Championships sporting equipment or professional photo gear, I’ve personally found it more cost effective to stash “mini-hubs” of the larger / heavier essentials in each continent that I regularly visit (I’m SO lucky to have so many friends willing to look after a mini-hub for me).

Turns out, air freighting expensive (insurance costs added in!) equipment around the World is a fools game… cheaper and safer to pare down to essentials and buy a mini-hub set in each continent, near where it’s needed. I’m comfortable financially… but I don’t have the resources of the Ferrari F1 Team. Once I’ve shipped a $10K lens back & forth a couple of times, loss & damage risk, insurance, and freight costs mean I would have saved money renting or buying it & using it where I need it.

We are all special and unique… just like everyone else. You will probably have different challenges than me, but if your “box of bits” to ship costs less than around $20K, you may find it’s only worth courier delivery & insurance if you are a “one and done” trip.

Thanks All, glad you liked this portrait of a brightly coloured, young lizard.

Thanks All, glad you like this image.

It’s a feral (probably domesticated parents) Male Muscovy Duck.
Here’s a useful website for you to identify most of the more unusual American Native Birds, and many of the introduced species, too: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Muscovy_Duck/id#

The original (phrase first used in 1965) spaghetti junction is the Gravely Hill Interchange of the M6, Birmingham, England. I used to commute through this almost daily for about 18 months, back in the 90’s. SO glad I don’t have to do that now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_junction

Very cool pics of one of my favorite birds. I like that, while they always appear to be very dapper little fellows... they generally also have a very dirty beak. One of the drawbacks I suppose of a woodpecker that spends most of its time on the ground, foraging in the earth for insects.

The European Fallow Deer was originally introduced to England by the Romans, in the First Century AD.

Subsequent introductions in the decades immediately following the Norman Conquest (1066 AD) have ensured wild populations established in the New Forest, Forest of Dean, and other forested farmland areas in southern England.

This particular Stag is from a managed herd on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, Devon, South West England.

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That third Apple (the Rusty Coat) looks very similar to several of the Russet varieties, that may have originated from ancient English heirloom apples. Russet apples were also introduced and popularly grown in New England in the early to mid 1800’s, so that may have been the original stock for this variety from the Carolina’s.

My favourite Apple is the Egremont Russet, still a very popular apple variety grown in Southern England:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egremont_Russet

Beshrew me sir, you are in fine fooling tonight. 🤭

Here's a brightly coloured individual, enjoying the Everglades Winter sunshine.

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Excellent images of a beautiful model. I particularly like the usage of light and shade in the fourth image. Which surprises me a little, as I’m not generally a fan of very explicit images like this… but for some reason this feels much more “nude than lewd”.

Congratulations, IMHO, one of your best! 🏆

Copiopteryx semiramis. A very interesting moth indeed. 👍👍

https://www.prairiehaven.com/?page_id=14010#:~:text=These%20include%20Silkmoths%20(Bombycidae)%2C,my%20Costa%20Rica%20Moths%20page.)

That’s a pleasant pheasant. I grew up with hundreds of thousands of these, my Dad and Grandad were both gamekeepers.

Thanks All, I’m glad you appreciate this portrait.

Thanks All, glad you liked this portrait of these fascinating, larger birds.