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Glacier Bay National Park - Dundas Bay & Idaho Inlet Fox Creek

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  • Daily Expedition Reports
  • 13 Jul 2021

Glacier Bay National Park - Dundas Bay & Idaho Inlet Fox Creek

  • Aboard the National Geographic Sea Bird
  • Alaska

The second morning of our expedition found us in the glassy calm of Dundas Bay surrounded by fog-shrouded mountains. Sea otters, marbled murrelets, and a brown bear patrolling the intertidal were our welcoming committee. We explored this part of Glacier Bay National Park on foot and by tours in our expedition landing craft. In the afternoon, we visited nearby Idaho Inlet for kayaking, paddle boarding and walks near Fox Creek. Post dinner we marveled at a congregation of humpback whales in the middle of Icy Strait as the sun set over Glacier Bay.

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Steve Engel, Naturalist

Steve began watching whales in 1986 off the California coast, far from his North Dakota homeland. A long the way he studied natural history at the Evergreen State College in Washington state (1982) and has been busy ever since working as an environmental educator, field biologist, animal tracker, hawk counter, wildlife trip leader, nature program supervisor, and as a shipboard naturalist with Lindblad Expeditions for fifteen years. He enjoys helping others see the unnoticed connections between whatever is in their field of view. He’s also known to sing a song or two to help make the connections clear.

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