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Alaska State Marine Highway ferry, Southeast Alaska – Image 2454

Alaska State Marine Highway ferry, Southeast Alaska – Image 2454

The ferry, Malaspina, cruises the waters of Southeast Alaska between Haines and Skagway. Built in 1963 for a cost of $5 million, the Malaspina is 408 feet in length and carries over 750 passengers and about 120 vehicles. I shot this photo from a helicopter right at sunset and was the cover a ...
Pink Salmon, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2453

Pink Salmon, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2453

Pink salmon return to Gastineau Salmon Hatchery at Salmon Creek. Pink salmon eggs are taken in the summer, raised at the hatchery and then released. The salmon are harvested when they return in two years. I took the photo through the glass viewing window in the fish ladder leading up to the ...
Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2452

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2452

Glacier blue ice provides one of nature’s most vivid color displays. Snowflakes or snow crystals become glacier ice when compressed under the weight of continuous snowfalls over hundreds of years. The massive weight of the ice pushes out any tiny air pockets between the crystals, producing ...
Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2451

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2451

A naturalist onboard the Wilderness Adventurer, showers under the Hole in the Wall Falls in Tracy Arm. The cliff walls along the fjord walls often drop straight down hundreds of feet below the water’s surface allowing the boats to get incredibly close to the rock walls and the waterfalls ...
Harbor Seals, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2450

Harbor Seals, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2450

More than a 1,000 harbor seals use the icebergs close to the glacier fronts as haul-outs in Tracy Arm. The icebergs afford the seals protection for land predators such as wolves and their only marine predators, killer whales. The most concentrated use of the icebergs is in front of South ...
Petersburg, Alaska – Image 2449

Petersburg, Alaska – Image 2449

Commercial fishing boats pack Wrangell Narrows in front of the fishing community of Petersburg. The town sits on Mitkof Island at the confluence of Wrangell Narrows and Frederick Sound, back dropped by the majestic Coast Mountains separating Southeast Alaska from Canada. This photo ...

“As a kid in Buffalo, New York, I always wondered what it would be like to encounter a whale,” says Mark Kelley. Learn more about Mark…