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Entering Glacier Bay: Icy Strait
This calm, iceless expanse once marked the end of the great glacier which...
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Icy Strait
At the entrance to Glacier Bay. John Muir "discovered" the bay...
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Bald eagle on iceberg
Shortly after this we picked up some park rangers, who, along with...
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Reid Glacier
Our first of the great tidewater glaciers. Named for Harry Reid, who...
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Glacier Bay reflections and Lamplugh
The Lamplugh Glacier makes its first appearance, just beyond the water...
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Lamplugh Glacier
These tidewater glaciers, though they reach miles back to land and...
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Glacier Bay
The great glacier Muir describes reached its maximum extent--well beyond...
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Us at the Margerie Glacier
Today the glaciers reach tidewater some 65 miles up the bay. About ninety...
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Margerie Glacier
This was the centerpiece of our Glacier Bay cruise. We stayed here for...
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The Margerie Glacier
This massive glacier rises 250 feet above the water, taller even than...
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Grand Pacific Glacier
This glacier is adjacent to the Margerie. Its two mile width is the...
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The Family Harris
Clara's cousin Charlotte is seated; Amelia and Aunt Marcia flank Uncle Jay.
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Nate, Uncle Ron and Uncle Jay
Clara's cousin and uncles on the Zuiderdam in Glacier Bay.
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A large calving!
After a thunderous creaking, the Margerie lost a 150 foot tall chunk...
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Discharged berg and wave
Keep in mind we're a quarter of a mile away. The aftermath of the great...
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Calving Aftermath
The wave rocked our ship. It made Clara's parents, who hadn't...
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Margerie Close-up
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Beary Nice, or Mr. Grizz
When the tide is low, the table is set. This grizzly bear hunts for barnacles...
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Lamplugh Glacier Waterfall
In the left tunnel is a waterfall.
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Jaw Point
This is so named because, ineluctably, one's jaw drops as the point is...
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Johns Hopkins Glacier
See? Jaw Point is on the left and what I think are Mount Salisbury (12000 ft)...
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Johns Hopkins Glacier
The Johns Hopkins Glacier is actually advancing! Harry Reid (of the Reid...
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The Johns Hopkins and Me
We didn't get within two miles of the glacier because harbor seal pups...
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A Fairweather Peak
I think it's Mt. Salisbury.
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Pelagic Cormorants, Icy Strait
As we dropped our jaws and dropped off the rangers, Clara and I saw...
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