Dundas Bay
The ancient rainforests and glacially sculpted bays of Dundas Bay are magical. Here, the land and animals are as they have been for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years.
The magic of this place grows on you. First, you are overwhelmed by the scenery. Then the details reveal themselves, such as fresh-budding false hellebore (below), newly sprouting after recent snowmelt.
Everywhere you look, more beauty presents itself, such as (upper right) this wide-angle view of cow parsnip and goatsbeard (with the Delphinus as a tiny speck at the upper left). We only spent a day and a half in this misty paradise, but we could have spent a month.
On the way back from a shoreside expedition, a black bear appears as a dot on a faraway beach. Captain Ronn maneuvers his inflatable skiff in close to the beach, then cuts the engine. We watch silently as a black bear grazes on springtime sedges (grasses), and approaches close, very close, as in this eyeball-to-eyeball view.
All told, we saw perhaps nine bears in Glacier Bay, most of them far away, though one came very, very close during a shoreline hike.
Dundas Bay
The ancient rainforests and glacially sculpted bays of Dundas Bay are magical. Here, the land and animals are as they have been for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years.
The magic of this place grows on you. First, you are overwhelmed by the scenery. Then the details reveal themselves, such as fresh-budding false hellebore (below), newly sprouting after recent snowmelt.
Everywhere you look, more beauty presents itself, such as (upper right) this wide-angle view of cow parsnip and goatsbeard (with the Delphinus as a tiny speck at the upper left). We only spent a day and a half in this misty paradise, but we could have spent a month.
On the way back from a shoreside expedition, a black bear appears as a dot on a faraway beach. Captain Ronn maneuvers his inflatable skiff in close to the beach, then cuts the engine. We watch silently as a black bear grazes on springtime sedges (grasses), and approaches close, very close, as in this eyeball-to-eyeball view.
All told, we saw perhaps nine bears in Glacier Bay, most of them far away, though one came very, very close during a shoreline hike.