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- Daily Expedition Reports
- 07 Sep 2023
Glacier Bay National Park, 9/7/2023, National Geographic Sea Bird
- Aboard the National Geographic Sea Bird
- Alaska
Today we awoke to cool, pre-sunrise light with low clouds and mist at the northern end of Glacier Bay National Park. Grand Pacific and Margerie Glaciers greeted us as we got our first taste of this massive landscape carved by ice. After breakfast, we made our way from Jaw Point down Johns Hopkins Inlet. A relatively ice-free waterway allowed us to get close to the face of Johns Hopkins Glacier and watch some incredible calving along the way. Little patches of sunlight made their way through the clouds every so often. Presentations by the natural history and photo staff as well as some tasty spiked hot chocolate from the bar kept us happy as we traveled south through Glacier Bay. The weather got slowly worse, with sideways rain and wind greeting the hardy guests on the bow. Our reward, however, was our second day of orca sightings and eleven mountain goats at Gloomy Knob. After warming up inside, we all gathered on the bow again at South Marble Island to watch Steller sea lions and large colonies of seabirds, including some tufted puffins floating on the water in front of us. We enjoyed an early dinner as we pulled up along the dock in Bartlett Cove at the entrance of the park to enjoy after dinner walks in the forest and along the beach. It was a remarkable day in this incredible place!
Voyage to Alaska, British Columbia and Haida Gwaii
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