Glacier Bay Basin in south-eastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925. Current glaciers cover an area 1,375 square miles (3,560 km2) and accounts for 27% of the Park area. Up until the early 1700s the area was a large single glacier of solid ice. It has since retreated and evolved into the largest protected water area park ...

We were awoken at 5.30am to the sound of the ships foghorn, it looked fairly thick but luckily it's only patchy, so when it cleared we could see Whales & Dolphins off in the distance. We are travelling through the Inside Passage, it is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific NW coast of North America. The coastal mountain ranges and islands offer wildlife viewing and small beautiful...