Our day was just getting started. After an amazing morning in Tarr Inlet, we reluctantly turned our stern and started south. Our season in Alaska isn’t over, but it’ll all be “downhill” from here on – 59°N was the farthest we’d be sailing. We weren’t finished with Glacier Bay, though. We still had one more major inlet to explore: John Hopkins. The fjord is more intimate than what...

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It was a different day entirely. While Monday had been sunny and bright with a heavy haze weighing down the air, Tuesday began with low clouds filling the main channel. The barometer rose back to 1017 MB overnight, promising sunshine. If we were lucky, the sky would start to clear before we reached the head of Tarr Inlet. We were lucky. The clouds began to lift as we...

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It’s difficult to imagine how many anchorages we’ve stayed in over the course of the last 15 years: Hundreds, definitely. Thousands, probably not. Some of them – like the deserted islands of Tonga, Waewaetorea in New Zealand or Chief Matthews Bay in British Columbia’s most beautiful fjord – stand out. While others are distant memories, nothing more than stops along the way. But I think it’s fair to say that...

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The vastness of Glacier Bay National Park cannot be stressed enough. The bay is sixty miles long and ten miles wide at its widest point with two major arms that branch off to the east and to the west, each with their own network of inlets. It’s the largest protected marine area within the national park system and the largest Unesco World Heritage Site – approximately 3.3 million...

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