At the end of our sojourn into Endicott Arm lay Dawes Glacier. The photo above is the end of the fiord, with Dawes in the lower left portion of the screen and some impressive mountains hovering above the glacier. While it may appear that we got close to the glacier, do not be deceived. I was using my trusty DMC-FZ1000 zoomed all the way in to 400 mm (expressed in the 35 mm equivalent). To see how close we actually got, this is a better depiction:
We’ve been on something like ten Alaska cruises, including these two back-to-backs I’ve been describing the past several weeks. This was our first to Endicott and Dawes. And while Endicott Arm offers some views, the whole trip is decidedly inferior to Glacier Bay National Park or Hubbard Glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Still, any glacier view is a fun glacier view regardless. But you’ll get more impressive calving at much closer distances at Hubbard and in Glacier Bay.
If you’re on Ovation of the Seas or any other Quantum-Class ship, the North Star observation platform will give you some nice foreground material for your landscapes:
And for the rest of today’s article, I’ll let the following photo gallery/slide show do the talking:
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