JUNEAU - Will Muldoon got hooked at young age - to politics.

Gov. Sarah Palin once said there was too much work to be done in Alaska to even accept an offer for the vice presidency. But on Friday she was singing a new tune and hopped on the first plane out of Anchorage as Sen. Joh McCain's running mate in the upcoming presidential election.

The tour boat Adventure Bound moves near a calving off the face of the Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness area off Stephens Passage. The fjord is 30 miles long and about one-fifth is covered in ice. The area is a major tourist destination in Southeast Alaska.