Category: Alaska

Revisiting Mendenhall Glacier a decade later

Roger Simmons, October 9, 2025October 9, 2025

Mendenhall is one of the most accessible glaciers since you can take a car or tour bus to view it from a very nice visitors center.

Roger Simmons, October 8, 2025October 8, 2025

One of the things I was looking forward to the most on my July Alaska cruise was cruising the Endicott Arm fjord to reach the Dawes Glacier.

Roger Simmons, August 19, 2025August 19, 2025

Thanks to a recent vacation, a work trip and visiting my usual haunts, I have added 14 new birds to my life list.

Roger Simmons, August 11, 2025August 9, 2025

So, how do can you identify a humpback whale using the catalog? It’s pretty easy if you get a picture of a whale’s tail.

Roger Simmons, August 9, 2025August 9, 2025

We got to see them swim, dive, expel air from their blowholes and show off their tails. But their bubble-net-feeding was incredible to watch.

Roger Simmons, August 5, 2025August 5, 2025

We were expecting to see Humpback Whales – and we did later on – but the first whales we spotted were a small pod of Orcas, or Killer Whales