Kenai Fjords & Girdwood

From Seward, the route leads through Resurrection Bay into the open Gulf of Alaska and onwards to Aialik Bay. Forested coasts, rock arches and steep peaks alternate with glaciers flowing from the Harding Icefield towards the sea. Farther north around Girdwood, temperate rainforest and wetlands lie below the glaciated Chugach Mountains.

Orcas and a swimming Black Bear were as much a part of the journey as the glaciers, rocky coasts and open sea. Old spruce forest, still water and the broad Turnagain Arm continue the series inland between wetland and mountain slopes.