I am up to the long awaited part 3 image set from our recent Alaska trip along the Inside Passage. We departed Juneau in the afternoon after our helicopter rides and headed back south: the way we came. Although we would end up north of Juneau at the village of Skagway the next morning, this leg brought us to Dawes glacier which empties into a fjord called the Endicott Arm (of Stephen’s Passage).
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- View looking east from Stephen’s Passage at the Alaskan and British Columbia land mass
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- The Taku inlet entrance from Stephen’s Passage; this view is east just after leaving the Gastineau Channel and entering The Passage
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- We saw multitudes of whales during the trip. My camera got very few. Here I caught an orca surfacing briefly. Typical sequence was a sighting followed by camera(s) pointing at the spot or the calculated next surfacing spot. Then, nothing appears.
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- More views along Stephen”s Passage
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- Eagle? Yup. They are everywhere in southeast Alaska
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- The Tracy Arm entrance is straight ahead here and proceeds right after the headland on the right. The arm was carved out by the Sawyer glacier, which is dumping hundreds of small icebergs, which you see here in foreground.
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- For a number of miles, this is the front view of our trip up the Endicott Arm
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- This ice fall has no name as far as I have researched. Too many to name is my guess.
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- Every turn in the narrowing waterway of the Endicott Arm opens new vistas.
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- Another view to write home about.
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- Here is our goal for the afternoon: Dawes glacier. It has carved out the Endicott Arm over centuries.
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- More views of the upper elevations surrounding the Endicott Arm.
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- After turning around at the Dawes glacier face, we depart the Endicott Arm in fading light. You can get a feel for my observation that 99% of all the land in south-east Alaska is at 45 degrees or worse.
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- Sunset view with the Admiralty and Baranof Islands on the horizon while looking across Stephen’s Passage