Alaska
Inside Passage 2014  II
Alaska 2014 I...Alaska 2014 III...Alaska 2014 IV
Juneau
![]() Another vessel sails into Juneau harbor 
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![]() Panorama of Juneau  | 
![]() Our ship's berth  | 
![]() Waiting for a scrap of food 
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Whale Watching
![]() Flukes ahoy! 
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![]() Showing the head 
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![]() Hump and dorsal fin 
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![]() Sea lions haul up on the buoy 
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Trip to Sawyer Glacier
![]() First glimpse of the glacier 
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![]() We startle a flock of gulls as we pass by 
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![]() Bald eagle rests on an ice floe 
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![]() Entering the fjords 
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![]() sSheer rock walls dive into the fjord's deep waterSSS 
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![]() Drawing closer 
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![]() Closer look 
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![]() Waterfalls cascade down the sheer fjord walls  | 
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![]() Face of Sawyer Glacier 
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![]() Small tour boat heads in for a close view 
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![]() Sun
highlights the clear blue ice of the glacier.  The scoured rock
walls show the previous depth of the glacier before it began receding. 
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