Capturing the Moment

  I love kayaking here in Alaska, and especially when we can kayak around ice. This day was especially good, with glassy calm conditions and a never-ending floating ice garden to explore. Discovering a new place to take our guests for adventures is always a good feeling. It is so nice having the flexibility as expedition leader, to search out these places and add them to future trips. Last week, we were iced out of our visit to Columbia Glacier, here in Prince William Sound, Alaska. So we instead went to a bay adjacent to Columbia fjord, in hopes that some of that ice would be there for us to walk around and paddle around. It was super low tide, so tons of big icebergs were trapped on the rocky shore, separating the bay from the fjord. I was excited to take people back, although this time I was prepare to explore by kayak. Only four people chose to come with me, but after this wild adventure, they all thought they chose correctly. We ended up paddling over 6 miles, way up a beautif...

  Endless ice formations. It is like nature's personal ice sculpture garden. Exploring ancient chunks of ice, once part of the giant Columbia Glacier, now stranded and slowly melting on this rocky moraine. Michelle, posing in front of our boat, while surrounded by beautiful natural works of art. Our boat, dwarfed by the towering ice. I climbed ontop of a stranded iceberg to get this angled shot of my group. Team extreme for our shorewalk among the ice garden. The tide was so low that we were finding sea stars and sunflower stars on our walk. Beautiful red version of a sunflower sea star. Michelle, using a beautiful ice sculpture as a temporary arm rest. Panorama of the ice-choked fjord leading to Columbia glacier. No boats are going to get through this for awhile. Our stranded ice sculptures all came from the Columbia glacier. This was my artsy shots from our walk. I shot this under and through an iceberg with a big arch in it, framing the ice beyond. There was all kinds of formati...