Kitti-nados

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 there, but there were (distant) brown bears, glaciers, a bit of dense early morning fog, more otters, and did I mention glaciers?

This is a close-up of a section of the Vanderplugh Glacier.

 A Glacous-winged sitting atop an iceberg off the Johns Hopkins Glacier.

We would occasionally see eagles atop the bergs, this one flew across the bow.

Other icebergs took on quite unique appearances.

We made our way to the Marjorie Glacier, which advances 10-15 feet per day if memory serves.  I'd never seen a glacier calve icebergs, but it did a few times for us.

There were some serious swarms of kittiwakes feeding in the waters next to this active glacier.

 Finally a view of a Peregrine that ripped past the boat.