Lake Eva, Baranof Island & Peril Strait
As yet another amazing Lindblad expedition comes to a close, guests, staff and crew look back on the sights and experiences of the past week: Dall’s porpoises demonstrating their incredible speed, grace and playful nature off the National Geographic Sea Bird’s bow in Chatham Straight. Mountain goat kids getting their hooves and wobbly legs under them for the first time along the steep, rocky coast of Glacier Bay in Glacier Bay National Park. An awe-inspiring humpback whale’s breach just yards from the boat, followed by a second so that everyone is sure to see. The grandeur of the Southeast Alaskan skyline each morning from the ship’s deck or a cabin window. Weaving through the sea of strikingly blue icebergs to take a closer look at the steep face of ice that is Sawyer Glacier. The bioluminescence that surprised each of us in the blackness of the middle of the night. And a long-distance hike through the rolling, mossy “hobbit country” of the George Island forest.
On this, our final day before heading to Sitka, we awoke to the overcast skies we’d been warned about. However, as we approached Baranof Island, the late morning opened up into yet another beautiful, clear and bright day. Some chose to go ashore and hike towards Lake Eva; along a cold freshwater cascade, past brown bear tracks, red squirrel caches and the geometric holes left by the red-breasted sapsucker. Others donned their kayaking vests and paddles to explore the coastline from the water. Late in the morning, an observer from the ship spotted a brown bear ambling along the shore and a lucky few got a close-up from the water of the patiently powerful brown giant as he left the cover of the sitka spruce and alder trees to come down to the shore.
Eager, binocular-clad eyes on the bow of the ship looked out for more humpback whales as we moved through the Peril Strait towards Hoonah Sound. The evening came to a close with yet another amazing meal and one last chance to stand on the bow, looking off into the horizon at the next opportunities for exploration, conservation and education that await us all.
As yet another amazing Lindblad expedition comes to a close, guests, staff and crew look back on the sights and experiences of the past week: Dall’s porpoises demonstrating their incredible speed, grace and playful nature off the National Geographic Sea Bird’s bow in Chatham Straight. Mountain goat kids getting their hooves and wobbly legs under them for the first time along the steep, rocky coast of Glacier Bay in Glacier Bay National Park. An awe-inspiring humpback whale’s breach just yards from the boat, followed by a second so that everyone is sure to see. The grandeur of the Southeast Alaskan skyline each morning from the ship’s deck or a cabin window. Weaving through the sea of strikingly blue icebergs to take a closer look at the steep face of ice that is Sawyer Glacier. The bioluminescence that surprised each of us in the blackness of the middle of the night. And a long-distance hike through the rolling, mossy “hobbit country” of the George Island forest.
On this, our final day before heading to Sitka, we awoke to the overcast skies we’d been warned about. However, as we approached Baranof Island, the late morning opened up into yet another beautiful, clear and bright day. Some chose to go ashore and hike towards Lake Eva; along a cold freshwater cascade, past brown bear tracks, red squirrel caches and the geometric holes left by the red-breasted sapsucker. Others donned their kayaking vests and paddles to explore the coastline from the water. Late in the morning, an observer from the ship spotted a brown bear ambling along the shore and a lucky few got a close-up from the water of the patiently powerful brown giant as he left the cover of the sitka spruce and alder trees to come down to the shore.
Eager, binocular-clad eyes on the bow of the ship looked out for more humpback whales as we moved through the Peril Strait towards Hoonah Sound. The evening came to a close with yet another amazing meal and one last chance to stand on the bow, looking off into the horizon at the next opportunities for exploration, conservation and education that await us all.
