Today is the day we got to see black bears up close…eating salmon and trying to hide from us interlopers (not very successfully)!!! Getting to Neets Bay by float plane was a spectacular way to enter such a pristine area … Continue reading →

Glacier Bay National Park……we stayed on deck all morning and into the afternoon to see the John Hopkins and Marjerie Glaciers. A very different experience to floating in the Arctic in silence with 140 people!!!

There is little appreciation of the tremendous suffering and loss of the first people (Tlingit language) that happened as a result of the Klondike gold rush…once a small valley full of trees and natural streams, modern Skagway is a collection … Continue reading →