Alaska Glacier Cruise & Alaska Glaciers
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Alaska Glacier Cruise
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The atmosphere is electric. Home Shore drifts in utter silence. Occasional sharp cracking sounds echo between the fjord walls. Minutes pass. Suddenly. .
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KABOOM!! White debris fills the air as a low swell radiates out, bearing
ice formed during the Roman Empire. You are witnessing the explosive
calving of a tidewater glacier, and there is no other event on earth quite like it.
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Home Shore visits tidewater glaciers in Stephens Passage's Holkham Bay, site of spectacular Tracy Arm. Holkham Bay is the highlight of our "Mainland Glacier" route,
between Sitka and Petersburg.
Guests often choose to paddle through the ice floes, wearing warm clothing.
Our guide reviews safety precautions for kayaking in icy fjords.
Harbor seals lay on nearby icebergs.
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On other routes in northern Southeast Alaska, receded tidewater glacier faces and hanging mountain glaciers are visible at a distance.
They form magnificent backdrops for our activities in Glacier Bay National Park.
Glacier ice takes shapes that are endlessly fascinating. Each iceberg is a Rorschach test - what does that one look like?
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Alaska on the Home Shore© All Rights Reserved
Except for the main homepage graphic, no image contains objects that have been digitally manipulated.
All photographs were taken during Home Shore tours, & Alaska Glacier Cruises with contributions from professionals Gary Luhm, Suzanne Steel, Heath Cowart, & Ben Kyle.
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