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Travel &
Vacation Images
Alaska -
August 2008
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| In August 2008 my wife and I took back-to-back small-boat cruises on CruiseWest boats, the Spirit of Columbia in Prince William Sound and the Spirit of Yorktown through the Inside Passage. The trip was memorable for both its intense beauty (especially on sunny days), and its intense sogginess (on the days when it rained the most). |
The photos pretty much tell the story. I have left out many photos of
interest primarily for their travelogue style. These are the photos
that are striking either in terms of subject matter or for some artistic
reason, and in some cases both. You will note I have included links in many of the photo captions or elsewhere in the text. These are often to satellite views of the geographic feature pictured. |
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Pre-Cruise We spent two nights in Anchorage, permitting some time with friends, who drove us along the Turnagain Arm that runs east from Chickaloone Bay. From the other side of the Arm we looked back on the Chugach Mountains. (Four photos.) Start with this photo to page sequentially through all the photos, or click on any thumbnail below to jump directly to that section and page from there. |
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Prince William Sound -
First Evening We started our first cruise from Whittier, across the Passage Canal from which was a colony of Black Legged Kittiwakes. Also seen: mountains and glaciers along the Passage Canal, Blackstone Bay, Beloit Glacier, Blackstone Glacier, and Tracy Falls. You may recall that Prince William Sound was site of the Exxon Valdez disaster, something that figured heavily in the cruise as we neared Cordova. (Seven photos.) |
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Prince William Sound -
College Fjord Harvard Glacier and Bryn Mawr Glacier. (Three photos.) |
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Prince William Sound -
Esther Passage (Three photos.) |
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Prince William Sound -
Steller's Sea Lions (Four photos.) |
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Prince William Sound -
An Iceberg (One photo.) |
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Prince William Sound -
Sheridan Glacier (Five photos.) |
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Prince William Sound -
Cordova Harbor (Three photos.) |
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Prince William Sound -
Fishing Boats from Cordova (Three photos.) |
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Juneau -
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (Three photos.) |
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Inside Passage -
Skagway (One photo.) |
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Inside Passage -
Bears on the Chilkoot River and Lake (Two photos.) |
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Inside Passage - Ft. Seward
Tlingit Meeting Hall (One photo.) |
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Inside Passage - Wildlife
in Glacier Bay Steller's Sea Lions and a Puffin (Three photos.) |
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Inside Passage -
Sitka National Historical Park (Two photos.) |
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Inside Passage - Morning in
Stevens Passage (Two photos.) |
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Inside Passage -
Tracy Arm and Sawyer Glacier (Four photos.) |
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Inside Passage -
Petersburg (Fourteen photos.) |
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Inside Passage -
Metlakatla Dancers An abstract record. (Thirty-six photos.) |
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Inside Passage -
Misty Fjord (Four photos.)
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