Location: Baranoff Island, southeast Alaska Had a good start to this trip with nice diving at Meyers Chuck, a great iceberg day at Le Conte Bay and our first closeup grizzly bear sighting of the trip in an impossibly spectacular beautiful mountain fjord on the east side of Baranoff Island. Everything about this fjord was […]
Read MoreIcebergs in Le Conte Bay, Alaska Jacqui: Now we have a new understanding and an appreciation for how seals feel when hauling themselves out onto icebergs….but truly it was the experience of a lifetime to lay on glacier ice and look up and think about where all this beauty came from and how wonderful it […]
Read MoreLe Conte Bay 18 June Comte Bay ist eine mystische Bucht in der Naehe von Petersburg. Eis ueberall soweit das Auge reicht. Der Comte Gletscher, majestaetisch, penetriert das Meer. Kalbende Gletscher, kalbende Seeloewen. Einmalig. Heute fuehlte ich mich wie 20 jahre juenger. Ich bin sehr dankbar diese tolle welt mit gleichgesinnten geteilt zu haben. […]
Read MoreThe good news is that the icebergs don’t seem to pile up in the 200 feet wide opening in the bar. The bad news is that today – for the first time ever – the grounded bergs obstructed the opening! I did some careful maneuvering with sharp 90° turns with 3 knots of current running and managed to squeek my way in. It was very tight and I had to use a lot of power but we made it in. The sheer volume of ice inside the fjord was awesome and we got some magnificent images of a huge ‘berg towering above the Nautilus Explorer with solid ice packed appearing to be packed all around us.
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