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As we sailed north past Ketchikan, we explored Tracy Arm before we stopped at...
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We sailed the narrow waterway, looking up at steep cliffs and looking down at...
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A fjord is a narrow inlet with steep sides that has been created in a...
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What a massive piece of ice it took to carve this valley! And over how many...
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Many of the floating pieces were small.
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Some were as big as a bus. When these pieces of ice exceed 20 feet in...
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By the way, we sailed on the Star Princess, a ship that can accommodate more...
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It was cold at 6 in the morning, but our friend Dick just grabbed a towel and...
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We saw small birds flitting from one ice floe to another.
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This was just the right morning for room service! We entered Tracy Arm around...
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This surely qualifies as an iceberg.
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These don't, but they're so beautiful. All morning long we...
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Another waterfall.
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I guess that's the tail end of a glacier that has carved this...
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Melting fast, these small pieces of ice won't last long.
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The renowned naturalist John Muir compared these cliffs to those in Yosemite...
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Dick's still out on his starboard side deck, but Nancy's staying warm...
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Pat waving as she wonders why I'm down in Dick and Nancy's cabin....
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John Muir thought that this region was even more spectacular than Yosemite...
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Pockets of snow and another waterfall.
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More ice on the way.
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This will melt soon after our ship passes by.
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Pat's pointing to the glacier at the end of Tracy Arm. You can...
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Then we came to the end of our little trip. There's the glacier in the...
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On this cruise our ship didn't go into Glacier Bay. Had we done...
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