On our final day cruising, the passengers (and expedition leader) of the National Geographic Sea Lion decided to go out with a splash!  Cruising from Sitka to Juneau, we spent the day transiting the 30-mile long glacially carved fiord of Endicott Arm, one of three fiords in Tracy Arm and Ford’s Terror Wilderness area and just 50 miles south of Juneau.  Designated part of the Tongass National Forest in the early 1900’s, it was not until 1980 that Jimmy Carter designated the approximately 650,000 acres of this wild, scenic and untouched area as wilderness.