Kenai Fjords National Park – what a dream

We took the Wildlife  excursion with Kenai Fjords Tours from Seward.  it was 8.5 hours of pure delight.  Captain Mark Lundstrom did an excellent job of getting us to the locations and providing insight on the birds, marine mammals, glaciation and volcanic activity.  We had the good fortune to meet Mark when we went to the Cordova Shorebird Festival earlier in the month, so we were hoping that we could get on one of his cruises – weren’t we just so lucky?

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Reflections of clouds and Snow Capped Mountains.

Across Resurrection Bay to the Aialik Peninsula

Part of the tour was to get up close to the Aialik Glacier. We watched for about half an hour and we did see one large section of the glacier “calve” with an extremely loud crash.

Approaching the Aialik Glacier and reflection.

Aialik Glacier snout showing the bedrock beneath.

Aialik Glacier close up.

As Captain Mark said, the mistake was to wait until you heard the calving because by then it is too late to see the ice fall.

Unfortunately as the glacier has receded and now end on the shore, we do not get large, house sized, icebergs calving as that happens when the bottom of the glacier is below the water.

We also got to see some wonderful wildlife – but more about that in later post.

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Gear: Nikon D800, Nikkor 24.0-70.0mm f/2.8, Lexar Digital film; Adobe ACR; NIK Silver Efex Pro 2

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