Growing up, my favorite color was always blue. Maybe that’s why I enjoy bringing people to glaciers so much.
This is from Glacier Bay Nationa Park’s Reid Glacier. There was just a little space at the edge of the Glacier where if you looked just right you could see under the glacier. It wasn’t big enough to be a cave, but its icy blues were tantalizing. To learn more about our photography workshops in Glacier National Park…
Usually, when we see mountain goats they are tiny little nature dots high up on the walls of either Endicott Arm or Tracy Arm, but not this day. The David B was underway and I was making lunch for our guests in the galley when I looked up and spotted a female mountain goat and her kid only a couple of hundred feet up from the water’s edge. It was such a pleasure to watch them without having to crane our necks back so far while looking through binoculars.
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This photo was from August last year. It was a beautiful calm overcast day and we had just spent the morning in the skiff running up to Dawes glacier. For several hours where we got to explore Endicott Arm and watch Dawes Glacier calve ice. On our way back to the boat we tucked into nooks and crannies along the edge of the fjord, stopped to photograph seals and birds and admired an untold number of waterfalls. This image of the David B was taken as we were coming back to our anchorage in North Dawes.
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This was one of the prettiest icebergs we saw last season. It came off the underside of Sawyer glacier in the Tracy Arm / Fords Terror Wilderness area which is part of the Tongass National Forest. It was fascinating to skiff around it and watch how the light played in the ice. We slowly circled around it a couple of times since its colors and textures were spellbinding.
This photo was from our Southeast Alaska Fjords Photography Workshop in July 2019. For more information about this workshop…
When the tide is right we can skiff up Baird Glacier’s river for a short walk to a small lake filled with Baird’s icebergs.
The glacier has changed a lot from when I went there for the first time in 2009. At that time we could walk up to and on to the Glacier. Then a few years ago there was an event that caused the lake to form.
This photo was from one of our Petersburg to Juneau cruises in June of 2019. June is often a good time to visit southeast Alaska as it can be one of the drier months and it’s a good time of year to see Arctic Terms which migrate to Alaska from South America. For more information on our 8-day Petersburg to Juneau cruises…