Mist

September 21, 2025

This is Prince Rupert, B.C., or so I believe. And yes, it was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, cousin of Charles I and his principal commander during the Civil War. After the Restoration, Rupes returned to Britain along with the new king, and invested heavily in the Hudson Bay Company, getting so much […]

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Pod Fun

September 9, 2025

A pod of harbor seals on an outing. They were having a riotous good time, and it was a joy just watching them. This was the same day we saw the whales doing their bubble fishing thing.

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Where’s Wally?

September 2, 2025

Where’s Wally? Right here, if you want to know. Wally is the name given a boss humpback in the Prince Rupert Sound, and is easily identified by the two spots on the white ventral surface of its tail fins. When you’re looking at Wally, Wally is also looking at you. Just a friendly warning.

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The Pod

September 2, 2025

We have snaked out of the U.S. and back into B.C. MV Imperial Shadow spent the day in Prince Rupert, while we ventured forth to see cetaceans from yet another catamaran. Again it was a day of miraculous sun. It’s almost drought conditions here, and I’ll return to New Mexico full of tales of the […]

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Wildlife

September 1, 2025

Eagles and bears are the two critters that most visitors here want to see here in AK— well, maybe I should add whales to the list— but so far my wildlife adventures haven’t achieved greatness. Here’s an eagle, one of a pair. They were some distance away, but my Canon has a 50-to-one zoom and […]

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Terminator

September 1, 2025

Here in the Inside Passage, we’re so far north that the moon’s terminator appears as a vertical line.

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Splash

August 31, 2025

The Dawes Glacier was calving like crazy on this warm afternoon, but not when my camera was pointing in the right direction. Here’s the best photo I got: it shows nothing falling but it does show the big splash afterward. The sound was a big BOOM followed by the crash of water as the ice […]

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Blue World

August 31, 2025

Another day, another glacier. This is the Dawes Glacier at the end of the Endicott Arm, as viewed from our catamaran. The weather has been phenomenally good, sunny and in the sixties or the low seventies. The locals tell us how lucky we are not to have Nature hurl buckets of frigid water at our […]

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Hubbard

August 30, 2025

Once we were in Seattle, it seemed only sensible to keep heading northwest, so here we are in Alaska, viewing the Hubbard Glacier from a catamaran. The glacier is 76 miles long and 7 miles wide as it enters Disenchantment Bay. The ice wall is 17 storeys high and extends a further 200 feet under […]

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IT’S ALIVE!

August 19, 2025
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