Location: Pt. Adolphus, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska. Pt. Adolphus is located across from the entrance to Glacier Bay. It is current swept with lots of upwellings, loaded with nutrients and it’s a fabulous place to watch humpback whales, sealions, bald eagles, great flocks of seagulls and even the odd grizzly bear on the beach. Sometimes the trickiest part of visiting […]
Read MoreHappy Canada Day from Alaska Fantastic beautiful 3 dimensional rich walls today accompanied by fantastic ballet of stellar sealions. Maggie Beaten up by stellar sealions today. It was great. Dave Ballet of the stellar sealions was fabulous. Oh wow, beautiful soft coral today. Robbie. Wonderful day today. Great dive with stellar sealions. They are not scary. Just playful and curious and they like the taste of […]
Read MoreLocation: Wreck of the Princess Sophia, Lynn Canal, Juneau, southeast Alaska The wreck of the Princess Sophia is one of the great tragedies of this area. The ship was a beautiful small liner belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railroad and sank in 1918 on t Vanderbilt reef with the tragic loss of all hands. What made it especially […]
Read MoreBreaching humpback whales, sea otters and stellar sealions. I loved the sea otter, the sea otter was sooo gorgeous.. he was scratching here there and everywhere, front legs, back legs, face and nose!!! – Dobby Humpback whales breaching, tail lobbing and generally hanging out for ages, a grizzly bear, sea otters, bald eagles, sea lions and a Fab dive […]
Read MoreLocation: South Sawyer glacier, Tracy Arm, southeast Alaska What a day we had today!! Got underway at 6 a.m. from our anchorage at Admiralty Island for the run across to Tracy Arm. Our plan was to push through the ice to the head of the inlet to watch the south Sawyer glacier calving icebergs and to launch our divers and kayakers to […]
Read MoreLooking back at my circumnavigation of Vancouver Island May 23 – June 1, 2009 So it was about 4:30 pm on Saturday when we arrived on the dock in Steveston for our dive trip that would take us around Vancouver Island. Our trip had been a long time coming as we had to book the […]
Read MoreLocation: Wreck of the State of California, Admiralty Island, southeast Alaska It’s been a funny start to this trip. The last trip was absolutely smashing with flat calm seas, gorgeous weather, loads of animals and superb visibility on the Alaska portion of our travels. This trip got off to a tougher start with wind and rain and […]
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