Glacier Bay Lodge Gustavus
199 Barlett Cove Gustavus, Alaska, 99826, United States
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Glacier Bay National Park
We left Skagway on Wings of Alaska around noon on Tuesday. This was an eight seat, single engine airplane. We were running late, but Juneau is the hub for Wings, so they held the connecting flight to Gustavus for us. This was a Piper 207 with just 6 seats. Our pilot for the second leg literally helped us out of the first plane and directly into the …
An 8 hour tour
Today we went on an 8 hour Glacier Boat tour on the Fairweather Express II. It was a great tour, we saw tons of sea otters, harbour seals, sea lions, a few whales, a Grizzly bear, and some people saw a black bear, but I didn't. Lots of eagles as well, The glaciers are really stunning, with some bright blue areas, and we got to see one calve, which …
Juneau, Gustavus and Glacier Bay, Alaska
The highlight of our traveling during Tim's visit to Alaska in July was our trip to Juneau via the Alaska Ferry, and then from there flying to on a small prop plane to Gustavus and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (http://www.glacierbay.org/#introductio n_to_glacier_bay). Glacier Bay Glacier Bay National Park includes 16 tidewater glaciers, …
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Our day on Glacier Bay
... valley and out into the ocean. In 1795, when Captain George Vancouver sailed by mapping the area; the glacier reached out into what he named Icy Strait. Since then it has dramatically retreat back up the land leaving a large ocean bay behind it. When conservationist John Muir sailed here in 1879, the glacier had already retreated five miles back into the newly formed Glacier Bay, which the glacier had gorged out on its previous journey to the ocean. On our journey, ...
Glacier Bay
Today and Tomorrow we will be at sea. Today we went to the kids club. My mom and dad went to look at glaciers because we were at Glacier Bay. The glaciers were really cool. We saw ice caves and we saw icebergs. Some parts of glaciers were blue an so were the icebergs. Soon it was time to go. At 12:30 we went to lunch and then we swam in the pool on the back of the boat. The pool was too hot and too salty. So we got out and went back to the kids club. At ...
