Alaska 2001: Sunshine, Whales & Beauty
Our early August 2001 trip, designed for photographers by photographers, took the 50-foot Delphinus of Dolphin Charters on a meandering seven-day journey from Juneau—busy cruise-ship-busy capital of Alaska—south to Petersburg, a down-home community of working fisher folks. After checking on photographic preferences of passengers aboard the boat, we spent a lot of time this year with whales, but each day we also wandered wilderness shorelines and just reveled in the wilderness beauty of Southeast Alaska. On this trip we were fortunate to have sunshine nearly all week. We were also blessed with a wonderful and talented couple enjoying their twentieth trip with Dolphin Charters, as well as a gentleman who was on his third trip.
This year, every photographer aboard the boat was rewarded with truly spectacular images. Follow the links to the left for Betty Sederquist's photographs of this special time. She's proud to have over 1,000 "keepers" from this adventure.
Robert Nielsen obligingly paddles around in the sunset near the old townsite of Cape Fanshaw, on the east coast of Frederick Sound.
The Magical Ice Kingdom of Tracy Arm
The Brown Bears of Pack Creek, Admiralty Island
Orcas Hunt Steller Sea Lions
The Acrobatic Humpback Whales
Scenics & Quiet Times
For photographs of the 2000 trip, go here.
