2. Boats

Taroka Arm and Tonsina Bay 2015

My wife and I took our Pacific Seacraft 37 sailboat and cruised the coastal waters of the Kenai Fjords National Park for a couple of weeks.
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ps_3024 We like to beach comb to see what kind of "treasures" we can find. We headed down the arm in the dinghy to check some things we had spotted on the way in the day before, we had noticed several very large plastic bags piled on on the shore. Imagine our surprise when we found a helicopter on the beach! They were doing clean up work and would be loading the trash bags onto the large barge that we had just spotted being towed into the arm. While having the beaches cleaned of debris spoiled our beach combing it was certainly nice to not see large amounts of plastic bottles and other debris littering the area.
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ps_3024 We like to beach comb to see what kind of "treasures" we can find. We headed down the arm in the dinghy to check some things we had spotted on the way in the day before, we had noticed several very large plastic bags piled on on the shore. Imagine our surprise when we found a helicopter on the beach! They were doing clean up work and would be loading the trash bags onto the large barge that we had just spotted being towed into the arm. While having the beaches cleaned of debris spoiled our beach combing it was certainly nice to not see large amounts of plastic bottles and other debris littering the area.

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  • IMG_1419 Entering Two Arm Bay. Taroka Arm ahead with Bear Point to the right.
  • IMG_1421 Looking to the north up Taroka Arm.
  • ps_3010 This is the first thing we noticed when we got Katie to the beach in Taroka -- black bear tracks -- adult and cub.
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  • IMG_1460 A couple of days later I spotted her with both cubs at the end of the cove. I was able to drift down close to shore in the dinghy and get a few shots of her and one of the cubs, the second cub was very shy and stayed hidden most of the time.
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  • ps_3024 We like to beach comb to see what kind of "treasures" we can find. We headed down the arm in the dinghy to check some things we had spotted on the way in the day before, we had noticed several very large plastic bags piled on on the shore. Imagine our surprise when we found a helicopter on the beach! They were doing clean up work and would be loading the trash bags onto the large barge that we had just spotted being towed into the arm. While having the beaches cleaned of debris spoiled our beach combing it was certainly nice to not see large amounts of plastic bottles and other debris littering the area.
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  • ps_3081 The north end of Nuka Passage just after rounding Hardover Point. The muddy water is glacier runoff from the glacier in the background. The demarcation lasted for a few miles before blending.
  • ps_3085 Bobbi watches for rocks as we work our way into Tonsina Bay.
  • ps_3114 Eastbound approaching McArthur Pass. Not every day was sunny and bright.
  • ps_3120 McArthur Pass dead ahead, Ragged Island ahead to the right.
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