Tracy Arm and Skagway were two side trips near Juneau that we just loved.
The weather has cooperated for the most part. Last year's weather here was
horrendous.
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Seeing whale tails says their diving and goodbye. Humpbacks have a 'fingerprint' on the bottom of their tale.
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Sum Dum Glacier near Tracy Arm was stunning!
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Tracy Arm majestically dwarfs this cruise ship.
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Seagulls found refuge on this 'bergie bit'.
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This brown bear was as shocked as we were, as we motored by in Julia Max.
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Congested 'Bergie bits' prevented us from going further.
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A game of inertia, the bigger the bits the more reluctant to move away.
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The Ice Age glacier scored these striations into the fiord walls.
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Juneau's Auke Bay was our base of operations for going to Skagway.
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For our anniversary we went to a restaurant at the top of a tram overlooking Juneau.
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This overview of Juneau is from Mt. Roberts.
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This Piper took us to Skagway. We were on the ground in Juneau for 30 minutes before a weather window opened.
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We flew in a small Piper airplane to Scagway in marginal weather.
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These White Pass engines pulled passenger cars up the grade.
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Beautiful scenery everywhere.
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Four different climatic zones were seen on the trip.
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This snowplow had seen major use: 250,000 miles on this short spur.
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Hard to look anywhere and not see spectacular scenery. This is from the mouth of the river at Skagway.
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Mendenhal Glacier comes up to the city limits of Juneau!
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