Arriving late at night, we set up our tent in the Bartlett Cove Campground, and quickly got to warming ourselves in the warming shelter. A communal fire shelter, this is used to minimize bear encounters while keeping residents warm and dry in the Glacier Bay Rainforest.
Translucent flowers in the old growth forest.
Light peaking through the moss-green old growth forest.
Planning our kayaking route around the tides. We had an hour window to enter the Beardslee Cut, a narrow inlet only accessible during high tide.
Kayaking through the Beardslee Islands, teaming with wildlife.
Harbor seals constantly followed us, ominously keeping their eyes on us. We felt watched at all times.
A soaked bald eagle sits and waits in the rain.
Our first campsite in the Beardslees - campsites had to be far enough past the shore line to ensure we weren't in the high tide zone.
Humpback whale blows mist in the Glacier Bay area.
Sketching "Snow," a skeleton of a humpback whale. Snow was immortalized because of her popularity in Glacier Bay. She and her calf were killed when she was struck by a cruise ship, and Snow was used as a beacon for activism, fighting for restrictions on cruise ships within Glacier Bay.
View of the Fairweather Range, the mountain range around Glacier Bay. Views of the tall mountains could be seen intermittently between the shroud of clouds.
Humpback fluke with a view of the Fairweather Mountains in the background.
Campsite in the tidal zone.
Humpback Fluke.
Stellar sea lions nap at a rookery on Monk Island.
Courtship of Stellar Sea Lions.
Sea otter swimming in glacial waters.
Three humpback whales breathing simultaneously.
Lamplugh Glacier, Alaska.
Grace and I in front of Lamplugh Glacier.