Glacier Bay National Park is a very special place with a character of its own, full of life where a marvelous vista or a great wildlife encounter awaits around every corner. Today we spent the whole day exploring the entire length of the bay and experienced all kinds of weather while in the process, from cloudy and rainy to balmy and sunny conditions. Glacier Bay is considered a laboratory to study nature’s successional change, and today I believe we all experimented some internal changes after having witnessed the beauty of a truly wild place.
8/1/2019
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Baranof Island
After exploring the glaciers and open waters of the northern Inside Passage, we sailed south through the night and returned to the starting point of our journey, Baranof Island. This island, along with Admiralty to the east and Chichagof to the north, is home to one of the highest densities of brown bears in the world. To search for evidence of the bears as they begin their yearly salmon feast and continue our exploration of the temperate rainforest, we anchored in Kelp Bay to kayak and hike the shoreline throughout the morning. Later in the afternoon, we welcomed Dr. Andy Szabo of the Alaska Whale Foundation to learn more about ongoing research taking place in Alaska on the unique bubblenet feeding behavior we witnessed earlier in the trip. Only in Alaska can you experience the forest, salmon, bears, and whales all in one day.
