Capturing the Moment

  My coworker, Christian, took this photo from one of our small boats. I am in the middle in the orange, setting up a paddle high-five in front of Holgate Glacier. I led a wonderful, five mile kayak trip today in the beautiful Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward, Alaska. My group of ten and I paddle through a fjord, past thousand foot waterfalls, up to the face of Holgate Glacier. This glacier had some of the bluest ice that I've seen. It was very low tide, and the glacier was resting on a sandy/rocky bottom, so we were able to safely get very close. On our paddle we came across a family of river otters as well as a mom and baby sea otter. There were a few water birds, with the horned puffin being the big star. But the glacier was by far the most memorable sight of the morning. I don't think the guests will forget looking up from the kayaks at a two hundred foot tall wall of ice, disappearing off into the horizon in front of them. There is something so special about explorin...

  One of my favorite pictures from the trip. Our kayak team sits in a sea of ice, watching and feeling giant pieces of ice calving off the face of Northwestern Glacier. Kenai Fjords National Park is located on the Kenai peninsula, just south of Anchorage, Alaska. It is where we finished our ten day expedition, at a place called Northwestern Glacier. The huge Harding Ice Field sits in the high coastal mountains here, and multiple glaciers tumble out of the ice field, winding their way down to the ocean below. Northwestern is where one of these glaciers meets the ocean. We had never been there before as a company, so this was a true expeditionary moment. We traveled for miles down the fjord without seeing the glacier. The water was calm and the wind was non existent. These are perfect recipes for adventuring by kayak and small boats. There is a bend in the fjord which provides an unveiling moment where you finally see the glacier. We had planned to just check it out with the big boat...

  Yep, its pretty beautiful out here. This is our counterparts on the skiff tour, in front of a hanging glacier. This morning we took our guests aboard the expedition ship Safari Explorer, deep into Kenai Fjords National Park, here in Alaska. It was day 1 of our brand new Aleutian Islands itinerary, where we spend 10 days going from Seward to Dutch Harbor. We will travel more than 800 miles, explore countless bays, share hiking trails with massive bears, and trade coastal temperate rainforest for wind strewn tundra. After bringing the guests from Anchorage to Seward, we met the Safari explorer in Seward harbor. After a quick boarding and drill, we cast off our lines and headed out on our inaugural Aleutian Islands trip. A regal looking bald eagle sat on the channel marker as we left the harbor, signaling good things to come. After a night of sailing we arrived in beautiful Kenai Fjords. The sound of ice, scraping down the side of the boat woke people from their peaceful slumber. I ...