After we pulled out of Juneau, we traveled back a ways to a fjord inlet called "Tracy Arm". Chunks of ice break off the glacier and float out of the inlet, some are small, others as large as a three story house... As you can see, our "selfies" didn't always turn out the best...but the people in Alaska loved my "lumberjack" shirt, they said I fit right in!
On one of the floating chunks of ice in this fjord was a beautiful bald eagle, the first pic is the full distance between the boat, the eagle is on the left side, a little black dot on the ice berg, but the second is a zoom in shot...
There were parts of this inlet that only gave our enormous cruise ship maybe 50 feet of clearance on either side as we made our way through, it was amazing to see our big ship in this narrow passageway...
At the end of Tracy Arm is Sawyer glacier which we parked right next to for a while. We stayed out on deck most of the time we traveled through this passageway, but we had reservations at Cagney's steak house on board, so we watched the last part from our window in the restaurant, it was amazing to enjoy these views AND eat an fantastic 18 oz rib-eye!
When we got back to our cabin, we had yet another towel animal...an elephant!:) We kept the monkey hanging from our ceiling for the whole trip...just couldn't take him down!
And so we travel on to Skagway, Alaska...thanks for tuning in!
On one of the floating chunks of ice in this fjord was a beautiful bald eagle, the first pic is the full distance between the boat, the eagle is on the left side, a little black dot on the ice berg, but the second is a zoom in shot...
There were parts of this inlet that only gave our enormous cruise ship maybe 50 feet of clearance on either side as we made our way through, it was amazing to see our big ship in this narrow passageway...
At the end of Tracy Arm is Sawyer glacier which we parked right next to for a while. We stayed out on deck most of the time we traveled through this passageway, but we had reservations at Cagney's steak house on board, so we watched the last part from our window in the restaurant, it was amazing to enjoy these views AND eat an fantastic 18 oz rib-eye!
When we got back to our cabin, we had yet another towel animal...an elephant!:) We kept the monkey hanging from our ceiling for the whole trip...just couldn't take him down!
And so we travel on to Skagway, Alaska...thanks for tuning in!
Love the pictures!!! So beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGreat pix! Love those glaciers with the blue/white ice.
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