Alaska Inside Passage 2014  II


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Juneau



Another vessel sails into Juneau harbor






Panorama of Juneau






Our ship's berth




Waiting for a scrap of food




Whale Watching




Flukes ahoy!




Showing the head





Hump and dorsal fin





Sea lions haul up on the buoy



Trip to Sawyer Glacier



First glimpse of the glacier





We startle a flock of gulls as we pass by





Bald eagle rests on an ice floe









Entering the fjords





sSheer rock walls dive into the fjord's deep waterSSS


















Drawing closer





Closer look
























Waterfalls cascade down the sheer fjord walls







Face of Sawyer Glacier





Small tour boat heads in for a close view





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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