Tracy Arm

Today we took a boat ride to the Tracy Arm Fjords.  A fjords is a is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.  This specific fjord was named after Benjamin Franklin Tracy which was Secretary of the Navy in the late 1800's.  Besides the sides being steep, the water beneath us was deep.  The captain told us it was near 1000 ft deep.  As we proceeded into the fjord, we started to see icebergs in the water.  At the end of the fjord was the South Sawyer Glacier.  The blue color in the glacier was breathtaking.  We also saw bald eagles, seals, humpback whales, mountain goats and a black bear on the trip.  I'm posting many pictures. 😃😃

We will be getting up at about 4:00 am tomorrow morning to catch the Alaskan ferry to Prince Rupert, British Columbia.  Along the way we will be stopping in Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan.  The trip will be over 32 hours and we won't have internet. 😢

A bald eagle watching us leave port

A few birds sitting on an iceberg

An iceberg floating in the fjord

One of many waterfalls

The South Sawyer Glacier

A mountain goat

A seal resting on the ice

These three in the kayaks were on our boat, then hopped off into their kayaks.  They were staying overnight in the fjord.

Another boat sightseeing

The top of the glacier.  The blue color is amazing.

The ice is starting to "calve" off of the glacier.  See next picture.

The piece of ice fell into the water and made a big splash and wave that rocked our boat.

A nice size black bear

Another glacier in the mountains

The tales of two humpback whales as they dive.  Once they dive they stayed submerged for about 5 minutes

A humpback whale swimming along

Another whale tale.  In all we saw about a dozen whales on the trip.