Alaska Inside Passage trip June 9-16 2002

We took an 8 day cruise in the inside passages of Southeast Alaska on the M.V. Sea Lion, a 70 passenger ship operated by Linblad Expeditions. One of the advantages of these expeditions is the number of naturalists on board. This was a great experience for us, and these pictures only give a hint of the beauty and majesty; in particular the outstanding fresh seafood dinners we had every night are not shown!

Pictures were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 950 (1600x1200 pixels original image size) and a Nikon N6006 on Photoworks speed 200 film, almost all with a Tamron AF 90-300 lens; scanned to CD by the processor.

I have selected 96 pictures from the trip; to make the download time bearable, there are 4 pages (arranged by date). In addition, the images shown on the pages are 'thumbnails' which are clickable and will open a new window with a larger image. If this does not work, click on the gray square underneath the image to open a new browser window with the larger image.

June 9 and 10

June 9 (Sunday)

Arrival in Juneau, visit (in the rain) to Mendenhall glacier.

Flying in to Juneau, cloudy and rainy.

Juneau Harbor from the air; two large cruise ships. Unfortunately, the Sea Lion (our ship) is not shown in this picture.

Mendenhall Glacier

June 10 (Monday)

Tracy Arm, Sawyer's Glacier and Sawyer's South, with numerous harbor seals.

Sawyer's Glacier	In Tracy Arm.	"Hole in the Wall".	Sawyer's Glacier.
Sawyer's Glacier, closer view.	Another closer view of Sawyer's Glacier.	Tracy Arm.	Snow covered mountains in the distance.
Glacier in Tracy Arm.	Tracy Arm: Hanging Valley.	Harbor Seals near South Sawyer Glacier	Harbor Seal.
Glacier and boat.	In Tracy Arm.

Hiking and kayaking in the afternoon, saw one black bear (and plenty of bear scat).

The hiking started near this pond.

Black Bear on shore, at a good distance.

Snowfed waterfall in Tracy Arm.

Mountain view from Tracy Arm.

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