I can say with 100% certainty that the birds you are about to see are gulls.  I can even say that they're large white-headed gulls.  Bey...

Hudsonian Godwit is a very narrow window migrant that's basically possible for about a week at the tail end of August.  After a couple ...

Juneau's waterfront was pretty alive with large white-headed gulls.  My last Glaucous-winged Gull was at Tiscornia 10 (!) years ago, so...

Day 4 (I think) was at Juneau.  Without trying we turned out to be the first ones off the boat that morning, which was useful to hop in the ...

The first place we actually landed off the cruise was a small town named Haines where the Chilkoot (?) River empties into the inner passage....

After a day of cruising across the Gulf of Alaska we entered the inland passage and Glacier Bay National Park.  You can't go ashore ther...

The first full day of the trip was spent entirely at sea.  I've never been out of sight of land on the Pacific and I had high hopes for ...