Alaska Inside Passage trip June 9-16 2002 (3)

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June 13 (Thursday) - Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay National Park - picked up a ranger at Bartlett Cove at 6:00 AM. Proceed north into the bay, and were soon near South Marble Island, where we saw Sea Otters, Stellar Sea Lions, Tufted Puffins, and numerous other birds. From there, the course took us by Sandy Cove, past Russell Island and several large cruise ships, ending up in the north end of the west fork of Glacier Bay, viewing Grand Pacific Glacier (which originates in Canada) and Margerie Glacier, which calved, dropping a huge mass of ice into the water making waves strong enough to rock the ship.

Entering Glacier Bay; Fairweather Mountain range.	Entering Glacier Bay, looking up the bay.	In Glacier Bay.	Sea Otter (looks like he's sleeping)!
Sea Otter - did we wake you?	Tufted Puffins.	This colony of male Stellar Sea Lions on South Marble Island was quite noisy!	A few Sea Lions in the water.
Fairweather Mountains.	Sandy Cove.	Grand Pacific (on the right) and Margerie (on the left) Glaciers and Holland American cruise ship.	Grand Pacific Glacier.
Margerie Glacier.	Margerie Glacier (closer).	Small iceberg near Margerie; gulls and arctic terns.	Margerie.
Margerie - about to calve.	Same location, now she's calving!	Settling down, but note the waves.	Almost no sign of the great hunk of ice that crashed into the water.
Colony of Black Legged Kittiwakes, near Margerie.	Lamplugh Glacier.	Johns Hopkins Glacier.	Lamplugh.

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